The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 24, 2024

The Annunciation

The Annunciation

1750s
(German, 1725–1799)
Germany, 18th century
ivory, ebony, velvet, in the original gilded and glazed frame
Framed: 56.5 x 41.9 x 6.3 cm (22 1/4 x 16 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 33.5 x 25.4 x 3.5 cm (13 3/16 x 10 x 1 3/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1981.12
Location: 214 Central and Northern European

Description

This object entered the collection attributed to the German sculptor Johann Paul Egell. However, this attribution never sat comfortably because Egell mostly worked on large-scale commissions in stone, stucco, and wood, rather than with these more precious materials. Recent research indicates that the work is by Düchert, one of Egell's most gifted students, who translated Egell's distinct visual language—the elongated figures, tiny heads, unusually flattened space, and planar handling of drapery—into small-scale ivories.
  • Thomas Howard-Sneyd (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
  • Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1981." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 2 (1982): 39-82. Referenced: cat. no. 18, p. 78, Reproduced: p. 48 www.jstor.org
    "La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, supplement (Mars 1982): 1-92. Reproduced: p. 51, fig. 257
    Ditner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Dissertation. Cleveland, OH; Case Western Reserve University, 1986. Reproduced: p. 307
    Lankheit, Klaus. Der kurpfälzische Hofbildhauer Paul Egell, 1691-1752. München, Germany: Hirmer, 1988. Reproduced: p. 45-46, vol. I; vol. II, pl. 314
  • The Year in Review for 1981. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
  • {{cite web|title=The Annunciation|url=false|author=Johann Michael Düchert|year=1750s|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1981.12