id: 143152 accession number: 1967.134 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.134 updated: 2025-05-10 11:04:34.514000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1653 creation date earliest: 1653 creation date latest: 1653 current location: 215 French, German, and Dutch creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Austria technique: ivory department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Adam Lenckhardt (German, 1610–1661) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 44.8 x 16.5 x 12.1 cm (17 5/8 x 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: inscribed with monogram "AL" conjoined and dated 1653. translation: remark: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Art Treasurers of the United Kingdom. Manchester (1857).', 'opening_date': None} --- PROVENANCE Prince Karl Eusebius von Liechtenstein, Vienna (1611-1684), 1653 - after 1678 date: footnotes: citations: Robert Napier, England, by 1857 - 1865 date: footnotes: citations: Fazackerley Collection, England date: footnotes: citations: Sold by Cyril Humphris, Ltd., London, to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967 date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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) url: 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 url: Braun-Troppau, E. W. "Der Wiener Elfenbeinbildhauer Adam Lenckhardt." Kunst und Kunsthandwerk XVI (1913): 318-320. page number: Mentioned: p. 318 url: Born, Wolfgang. "A Newly Discovered Masterpiece of Adam Lenckhardt." Apollo XXIII, no. 133 (January 1936): 41-45, page number: Mentioned: p. 42 url: 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 url: Spaeth, Eloise. American Art Museums and Galleries: An Introduction to Looking. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1960. page number: Reproduced: p. 19 url: 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. url: 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 url: "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 url: "La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts LXXI, no. 1189 (February 1968): 1-140. page number: Reproduced: p. 61, no. 236 url: "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." Art Quarterly XXXI, no. 2 (Summer 1968): 205-232. page number: Mentioned: p. 214 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. 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 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. 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. London, United Kingdom: Scala Books, 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 202-203 url: "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: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.134/1967.134_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.134/1967.134_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.134/1967.134_full.tif