The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Mourning Mary
c. 1710–40
Overall: 130.2 x 59.3 x 43.2 cm (51 1/4 x 23 3/8 x 17 in.)
Location: 214 Central and Northern European
Description
This figure’s orientation suggests it may have been part of a Crucifixion group, situated to the left of Christ with another figure to the right to balance the composition. Fingers knotted in prayer, lips parted in anguish, the Virgin appears to recoil from the sight of her son on the cross. Her contorted pose and agitated draperies are visible manifestations of her grief. Obvious signs of wear to the stone suggest that the group may have been set outside of a church, perhaps atop pillars.- Kurt Rossacher (Salzburg, Austria), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
- Hawley, Henry. "Annual Report for 1967: Decorative Arts." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LV, no. 6 (June, 1968): 174-177. Mentioned: P. 174, 177Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1968." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 1 (1969): 3-50. Referenced: cat. no. 54, p. 46, Reproduced: p. 20 www.jstor.org"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." The Art Quarterly XXXII, no. 2 (Summer 1969): 207-234. Reproduced: p. 226Ditner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Dissertation. Cleveland, OH: Cast Western Reserve University,1986. reproduced: p. 436, fig. 58a; Mentioned: p.432-436Leonard, Anne, and Joyce Suechun Cheng. The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700-1900. Chicago, IL: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2011. Reproduced: p. 13, fig. 2
- Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1967.229