id: 142361 accession number: 1966.18 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.18 updated: 2022-09-22 10:06:45.049000 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 (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: 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. --- 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