The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 29, 2024
Kneeling Angel
c. 1760
(German, 1725–1775)
Overall: 83.5 x 39 x 23.5 cm (32 7/8 x 15 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1966.18
Location: 214 Central and Northern European
Description
This angel, and another now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, were probably originally placed on either side of a tabernacle—a structure designed to hold the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist—on an altar in a Christian church or private chapel. The angels would originally have had wings, and the now plain surface of the sculpture would have been painted or gilded. Ignaz Günther was among the most sought-after carvers of religious sculpture in southern Germany. His virtuoso skill is particularly evident here in the angel’s pious expression and elegantly formed hands and feet.- art market, Munich, 1950sKurt Rossacher (Salzburg, Austria), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
- The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 150 archive.orgGerhard Woeckel, "Unbekannte Religiöse Bildwerke und Handzeichnungen Ignaz Günthers." Alte und Moderne Kunst 86 (Mai-Juni 1966): 20-26. Reproduced: p. 26"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, January--March, 1966." The Art Quarterly XXIX, no. 2 (Summer 1966): 165-186. Reproduced: p. 180Lee, Sherman E. "Golden Anniversary Acquisitions: September 10 through October 16." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 7 (1966): 181-284. Referenced: cat. no. 10, p. 277; Reproduced: p. 222 www.jstor.orgWolfgang Stechow, "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." ARTnews (September 1966): 30-64. Mentioned: p. 44; reproduced: p. 31Burton, Richard. “Fifty Years of the Cleveland, Some Golden Anniversary Acquisitions.” Connoisseur 163 (October 1966): 128–35. Reproduced: p. 133The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 150 archive.orgWoeckel, Gerhard P. Ignaz Günther: die Handzeichnungen des kurfürstlich bayerischen Hofbildhauers Franz Ignaz Günther (1725-1775). Weissenhorn, Germany: A. Konrad, 1975. Reproduced: p. 529The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 166 archive.orgDitner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Dissertation, Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University,1986. Reproduced: p. 351
- Loan exchange. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (September 1, 2010-April 1, 2014).Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966).
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