id: 143283 accession number: 1967.22 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.22 updated: 2022-05-14 09:01:22.402000 Saint Deicolus and the Boar, 1747-48. Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner (German, 1712-1761). Pen and brown and gray ink and brush and gray wash heightened with white gouache; incised, verso coated with red chalk; sheet: 52.2 x 73.5 cm (20 9/16 x 28 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1967.22 title: Saint Deicolus and the Boar title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1747-48 creation date earliest: 1747 creation date latest: 1748 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, 18th century technique: pen and brown and gray ink and brush and gray wash heightened with white gouache; incised, verso coated with red chalk department: Drawings collection: DR - German type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner (German, 1712-1761) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 52.2 x 73.5 cm (20 9/16 x 28 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: two sheets (joined) of blue laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: upper right, in graphite: a 30; verso, upper left, in graphite: 70_-50 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 (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). title: Drawings opening date: 1968-06-11T04:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). title: German Drawings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries opening date: 1980-04-01T04:00:00 German Drawings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 1-July 13, 1980). title: 18th Century Master Drawings opening date: 1981-10-06T04:00:00 18th Century Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981). title: Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-11-16T05:00:00 Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983). title: Central European Drawings, 1680-1800: A Selection from American Collections opening date: 1989-10-21T04:00:00 Central European Drawings, 1680-1800: A Selection from American Collections. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ (organizer) (October 21-December 3, 1989); Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara, CA (January 10-February 25, 1990). title: The German Tradition opening date: 1993-04-27T04:00:00 The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE with C. G. Boerner, Inc., Dusseldorf. date: 1966-1967 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1967- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The rarely depicted St. Deicolus was an Irish monk who lived in the 600s and was known for his retreat to a hermitage in a forest. digital description: German artist Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner's innovations in rococo design are magnificently demonstrated in this sheet showing the story of Saint Deicolus and the Boar. The format of the work imitates that of a decorative cartouche, an ornamental framework surrounding an open field usually reserved for an inscription or emblem. Baumgartner ingeniously adapted the cartouche form for this scene: the framing elements seem to grow out of the landscape but are clearly artificial, and have the appearance of exuberant metalwork intertwined with vegetation and rocks. Deicolus was an Irish saint who founded an abbey in the Burgundy region of France. Baumgartner shows an incident in which Deicolus saved a boar from the hunting party of the ruler Clotaire II. The highly finished drawing on blue paper was made as a design for print from a suite combining saints with depictions of the hunt. wall description: Baumgartner's innovations in rococo design are magnificently demonstrated in this sheet showing the story of Saint Deicolus and the Boar. The format of the work imitates that of a decorative cartouche, an ornamental framework surrounding an open field usually reserved for an inscription or emblem. Baumgartner ingeniously adapted the cartouche form for this scene: the framing elements seem to grow out of the landscape but are clearly artificial, and have the appearance of exuberant metalwork intertwined with vegetation and rocks. Deicolus was an Irish saint who founded an abbey in the Burgundy region of France. Baumgartner shows an incident in which Deicolus saved a boar from the hunting party of the ruler Clotaire II. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS C.G. Boerner (Firm), and Ausstellung. Ausgewählte Druckgraphik und Handzeichnungen aus vier Jahrhunderten. 1966. page number: no. 49 url: C.G. Boerner (Firm). Handzeichnungen vor 1900. Düsseldorf: Boerner, 1966. page number: no. 5 url: Rowlands, John. Reviewed Works: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. Die Deutschen Handzeichnungen, I: Die Handzeichnungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts by Fritz Zink; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. Die Deutschen Handzeichnungen, IV: Die Handzeichnungen des 18. Jahrhunderts by Monika Heffels. Master Drawings 8, no. 3 (1970): 290-95. page number: p. 294 url: www.jstor.org/stable/1553059. Sotheby Mak van Waay V. V., Amsterdam, Sale Catalogue 320 Fine Dutch, Flemish, and German Drawings, 18 November 1980. page number: p. 67, under no. 187. url: Theilmann, Rudolf, Gert Reising, and Johann Eckart von Borries. 100 Zeichnungen und Drucke aus dem Kupferstichkabinett. Karlsruhe: Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 1988. page number: p. 102, under no. 35 url: Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta. Central European Drawings, 1680-1800: A Selection from American Collections. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 1989. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 9, p. 21, pp. 119-20, cat. no. 39, under cat. no. 40 url: C.G. Boerner (Firm). Aus unseren Mappen 1989. Düsseldorf: C.G. Boerner, 1989. page number: no. 28 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 63, pp. 9-10, pp.156-57, p. 292; Reproduced: p. 157 url: C.G. Boerner (Firm), "Notable Works of Art Now on the Market: Supplement." The Burlington Magazine 109, no. 777 (1967). page number: under plate XLIII url: www.jstor.org/stable/875515. --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.22/1967.22_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.22/1967.22_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.22/1967.22_full.tif