id: 142361
accession number: 1966.18
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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
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creation date: c. 1760
creation date earliest: 1755
creation date latest: 1765
current location: 214 Central and Northern European
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Germany, Munich, 18th century
technique: gessoed and painted wood
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Sculpture
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Ignaz Günther (German, 1725–1775) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 83.5 x 39 x 23.5 cm (32 7/8 x 15 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
art market, Munich, 1950s
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Kurt Rossacher (Salzburg, Austria), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, January--March, 1966." The Art Quarterly XXIX, no. 2 (Summer 1966): 165-186.
page number: Reproduced: p. 180
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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
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Burton, Richard. “Fifty Years of the Cleveland, Some Golden Anniversary Acquisitions.” Connoisseur 163 (October 1966): 128–35.
page number: Reproduced: p. 133
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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
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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
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IMAGES
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