id: 142361 accession number: 1966.18 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.18 updated: 2025-02-09 03:13:41.118000 Kneeling Angel, c. 1760. Ignaz Günther (German, 1725–1775). Gessoed and painted wood; overall: 83.5 x 39 x 23.5 cm (32 7/8 x 15 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1966.18 title: Kneeling Angel 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: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, Munich, 18th century technique: gessoed and painted wood department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Ignaz Günther (German, 1725–1775) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 83.5 x 39 x 23.5 cm (32 7/8 x 15 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions opening date: 1966-09-10T04:00:00 Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966). title: Loan exchange opening date: 2010-09-01T00:00:00 Loan exchange. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (September 1, 2010-April 1, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE art market, Munich, 1950s date: footnotes: citations: Kurt Rossacher (Salzburg, Austria), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. 150 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n174 Gerhard Woeckel, "Unbekannte Religiöse Bildwerke und Handzeichnungen Ignaz Günthers." Alte und Moderne Kunst 86 (Mai-Juni 1966): 20-26. page number: Reproduced: p. 26 url: "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, January--March, 1966." The Art Quarterly XXIX, no. 2 (Summer 1966): 165-186. page number: Reproduced: p. 180 url: Lee, Sherman E. "Golden Anniversary Acquisitions: September 10 through October 16." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 7 (1966): 181-284. page number: Referenced: cat. no. 10, p. 277; Reproduced: p. 222 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152110. Wolfgang Stechow, "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." ARTnews (September 1966): 30-64. page number: Mentioned: p. 44; reproduced: p. 31 url: Burton, Richard. “Fifty Years of the Cleveland, Some Golden Anniversary Acquisitions.” Connoisseur 163 (October 1966): 128–35. page number: Reproduced: p. 133 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. 150 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n174 Woeckel, Gerhard P. Ignaz Günther: die Handzeichnungen des kurfürstlich bayerischen Hofbildhauers Franz Ignaz Günther (1725-1775). Weissenhorn, Germany: A. Konrad, 1975. page number: Reproduced: p. 529 url: 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. 166 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n186 Ditner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Dissertation, Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University,1986. page number: Reproduced: p. 351 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.18/1966.18_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.18/1966.18_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.18/1966.18_full.tif