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accession number: 1967.134
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Descent from the Cross, 1653. Adam Lenckhardt (German, 1610–1661). Ivory; overall: 44.8 x 16.5 x 12.1 cm (17 5/8 x 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1967.134
title: Descent from the Cross
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creation date: 1653
creation date earliest: 1653
creation date latest: 1653
current location: 215 French, German, and Dutch
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Austria
technique: ivory
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Sculpture
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Adam Lenckhardt (German, 1610–1661) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 44.8 x 16.5 x 12.1 cm (17 5/8 x 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
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inscription: inscribed with monogram "AL" conjoined and dated 1653.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1967
opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Art Treasurers of the United Kingdom. Manchester (1857).', 'opening_date': None}
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PROVENANCE
Prince Karl Eusebius von Liechtenstein, Vienna (1611-1684), 1653 - after 1678
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Robert Napier, England, by 1857 - 1865
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Fazackerley Collection, England
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Sold by Cyril Humphris, Ltd., London, to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Napier, Robert, and J. C. Robinson. Catalogue of the Works of Art Forming the Collection of Robert Napier. London, United Kingdom: Priv. Print, 1865.
page number: Reproduced: no. 1085 (as Algardi)
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Fleischer, Victor. Fürst Karl Eusebius von Liechtenstein als Bauherr und Kunstsammler (1611-1684). Vienna, Austria and Leipzig,Germany: C.W. Stern, 1910.
page number: Reproduced: p. 36-37, p. 225-226
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Braun-Troppau, E. W. "Der Wiener Elfenbeinbildhauer Adam Lenckhardt." Kunst und Kunsthandwerk XVI (1913): 318-320.
page number: Mentioned: p. 318
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Born, Wolfgang. "A Newly Discovered Masterpiece of Adam Lenckhardt." Apollo XXIII, no. 133 (January 1936): 41-45,
page number: Mentioned: p. 42
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Schikola, Gertraut. "Wiener Plastik der Renaissance und des Barocks." In Geschichte der Bildenden Kunst in Wien, Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Wien, 85-162. Wien: Der Verein, 1955.
page number: Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 99
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Spaeth, Eloise. American Art Museums and Galleries: An Introduction to Looking. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1960.
page number: Reproduced: p. 19
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Theuerkauff, Christian. "Der Elfenbeinbildhauer Adam Lenckhardt." Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen X (1965): 27-70.
page number: Mentioned: p. 30-31, 56-58, 62, 65, 68, 69, 70; reproduced: p. 59, figure 27.
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Schädler, Alfred. "Der Ulmer Bildhauer und Elfenbein-schnitzer David Heschler (1611-1667)." . In Studien zur Geschichte der europäischen Plastik; Festschrift, Theodor Müller, zum 19, April 1965. Kurt Martin, and Theodor Müller, 293-302. München: Hirmer Verlag, 1965.
page number: Mentioned: p. 99
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"Year in Review." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 10 (1967): 302-46.
page number: Referenced: no. 13, p. 341, Reproduced: p. 311
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152183
Hawley, Henry. "An Ivory Deposition." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LV, no. 11 (November, 1968): 290-293.
page number: Reproduced: p. 290, p. 292, p. 293
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"La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts LXXI, no. 1189 (February 1968): 1-140.
page number: Reproduced: p. 61, no. 236
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"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." Art Quarterly XXXI, no. 2 (Summer 1968): 205-232.
page number: Mentioned: p. 214
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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. 129
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n153
Theurerkauff, Christian. "Scultura Barocca in Avorio: Nuove Attribuzioni ad Adam Lenckhardt e a Dominicus Stainhart." Antichità Viva X, no. 2 (February 1971): 33-51.
page number: Mentioned: p. 34, 35, 37-38, 46; reproduced: p. 42, figs. 15, 16
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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. 164
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n184
Ditner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Dissertation, Cleveland, OH: Cast Western Reserve University, 1986.
page number: Reproduced: p. 372
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Baumstark, Reinhold, and Peter Volk. Apoll schindet Marsyas: über das Schreckliche in der Kunst ; Adam Lenckhardts Elfenbeingruppe ; [Katalog zur Ausstellung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, München, 15. März bis 18. Juni 1995]. 1995.
page number: Reproduced: p. 138
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Theurerkauff, Christian. "Baroque Ivories from the Collection of Anselm Salomon van Rothschild in Vienna." Apollo 157 (February 2003): 15-25.
page number: Reproduced: p. 16, no. 492
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Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. London, United Kingdom: Scala Books, 2012.
page number: Reproduced: p. 202-203
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"Collections. Personal Favorite from the Archives.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 55, no. 4 (July/August): 16.
page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 16.
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2015-04
Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 19
url:
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