id: 137319 accession number: 1962.247 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.247 updated: 2025-02-14 13:29:49.910000 Daniel in the Lion's Den, c. 1125–50. France, Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, 12th century. Limestone; overall: 72.4 x 68.6 x 36.2 cm (28 1/2 x 27 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1962.247 title: Daniel in the Lion's Den title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1125–50 creation date earliest: 1125 creation date latest: 1150 current location: 106B Romanesque & Gothic Sculpture creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: France, Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, 12th century technique: limestone department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Romanesque type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 72.4 x 68.6 x 36.2 cm (28 1/2 x 27 x 14 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - 1962 opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00 Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). title: Treasures of Medieval France opening date: 1966-11-16T05:00:00 Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (George Joseph Demotte, Paris, France and New York, NY, (1877-1923)) date: ?-1923 footnotes: citations: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN date: 1923-1957 footnotes: citations: (Victor D. Spark (1898-1991), New York, NY) date: 1957-? footnotes: citations: (Wolfgang Hofstätter, Vienna, Austria, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1962 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1962- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Demote's Gift of Gothic Sculpture," Minneapolis Institute of Art Bulletin 12 (March 1923). page number: p. 18 url: "Recent Gift of Early French Sculpture" Minneapolis Institute of Art Bulletin 12 (April 1923). page number: pp. 26-28 url: Green, Rosalie B. Daniel in the Lions' Den As an Example of Romanesque Typology. 1948. page number: pp. 10-11, 63, no. 1.7. url: Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review 1962." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 9 (1962). page number: no. 16 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151915 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. 46 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n70 Wixom, William D. Treasures from Medieval France. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Mentioned: p. 66; reproduced: p. 69; fig. 12 url: https://archive.org/details/TreasuresMedievalFrance/page/n95 W. Cahn, Gesta VII (1968). page number: pp. 57-8 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. 46 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n68 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. 51 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n71 Cahn, Walter, and Linda Seidel. Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. New York: B. Franklin, 1978. page number: no. B III 6, 155-156 url: Wixom, William D. "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections XVII," Gesta 18, no. 2 (1979). page number: pp. 42-3 url: Scheifele, Eleanor L.. “A French Romanesque Capital of Daniel in the Lions' Den.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 3 (1994): 46-83. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 46-83 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161445 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: p. 154-5, no. 53. url: Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. page number: cat. 58, p.196 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.247/1962.247_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.247/1962.247_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.247/1962.247_full.tif