id: 136802 accession number: 1961.30 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.30 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:50.165000 God the Father, c. 1760. Johann Peter Schwanthaler (Austrian, 1720–1795). Painted and gilded wood; overall: 141.6 x 104.2 x 35.6 cm (55 3/4 x 41 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1961.30 title: God the Father title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1765 current location: 214 Central and Northern European creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Austria, Lambach, 18th century technique: painted and gilded wood department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Johann Peter Schwanthaler (Austrian, 1720–1795) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 141.6 x 104.2 x 35.6 cm (55 3/4 x 41 x 14 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1961) opening date: 1961-11-01T05:00:00 Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE said to have come from the vicinity of Lambach, Austria date: footnotes: citations: Dr. Kurt Rossacher (Salzburg, Austria), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review 1961." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 9 (1961): 219-51. page number: Referenced: cat. no. 6, p. 247 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142473. "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, October- December, 1961." The Art Quarterly XXV, no. 2 (Spring 1962): 69-98. page number: Reproduced: p. 77 url: "Annual Report for 1961." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 6 (1962): 115-45. page number: Referenced: p. 127 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25151899. Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” July 25, 1962, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0983 Hawley, Henry H. "Eighteenth-century Sculpture from Germany and Austria." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LI, no.1: 1-13. page number: Reproduced: p. 20 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 149 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n173 Christensen, Erwin O. A Guide to Art Museums in the United States. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, 1968. page number: Reproduced: p. 177, no. 362 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 149 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n173 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 165 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n185 Baum,Elfriede. Katalog des Österreichischen Barockmuseums im Unteren Belvedere in Wien, Vienna, Austria: Herold, 1980. page number: Reproduced: p. 642, vol. 2 url: Ditner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Thesis Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University, 1986. page number: Reproduced: p. 388 url: Achleitner, Helga, and Johann Peter Schwanthaler. Johann Peter der Ältere Schwanthaler, 1720-1795, der bayerisch-österreichische Rokokobildhauer: eine Stilanalyse. Ried, Austria: Edition Kössl, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 179, pl. 215; mentioned: p. 178 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.30/1961.30_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.30/1961.30_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.30/1961.30_full.tif