id: 146171 accession number: 1971.65 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.65 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:29.804000 Orpheus and Cerberus, c. 1765. Ferdinand Tietz (Austrian, 1708–1777). Sandstone ; with base: 304.8 cm (120 in.); base: 38.1 x 102.9 x 102.9 cm (15 x 40 1/2 x 40 1/2 in.); without base: 182.9 x 106.7 x 61 cm (72 x 42 x 24 in.); pedestal: 89.5 x 88.9 x 88.9 cm (35 1/4 x 35 x 35 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1971.65 title: Orpheus and Cerberus title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1765 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1770 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, near Bamberg, 18th century technique: sandstone department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Ferdinand Tietz (Austrian, 1708–1777) - artist Austrian sculptor, baptized 1708, died 1777, active in Germany --- measurements: with base: 304.8 cm (120 in.); Base: 38.1 x 102.9 x 102.9 cm (15 x 40 1/2 x 40 1/2 in.); without base: 182.9 x 106.7 x 61 cm (72 x 42 x 24 in.); Pedestal: 89.5 x 88.9 x 88.9 cm (35 1/4 x 35 x 35 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1971 opening date: 1971-12-28T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE commissioned by Adam Friedrich von Seins­heim (1708–1779), Prince Bishop of Bamberg date: after 1757 - footnotes: citations: Garden of Schloss Seehof, near Bamberg (Germany) date: - at least 1965 footnotes: citations: (Dr. Kurt Rossacher, Salzburg, by whom sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: - 1971 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Margarete Kämpf, "Das fürstbischöfliche Schloss Seehof bei Bamberg," Bericht des Historischen Vereins Bamberg, nos. 93-94 (1956). page number: Mentioned: pp. 153, 156 url: Erich Herzog, "Verlorene Figuren von Ferdinand Tietz aus dem Park von Schloss Seehof," Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst 9 (1959), 234-246 page number: Mentioned: p. 235 url: Klaus Merten, "Schloss und Garten Seehof, Zwischenbilanz einer Liquidation," Maltechnik-Restauro 2 (1972). page number: Mentioned: p. 128 url: "Year in Review 1971," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59 (January 1972), p. 40, no. 14, repr. p. 11. page number: url: "La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts (February 1972) page number: Reproduced: p. 96, fig. 339 url: A. Beverly Barksdale, "Some Musical Sidelights of Tietz's Orpheus," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art LIX (September 1972), 212-215 page number: Mentioned: pp. 212-14, reproduced: figs 4, 5 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152441 Henry Hawley, "Three Works by Ferdinand Tietz from Schloss Seehof," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art LIX (September 1972), 204-211 page number: Mentioned: pp. 207-211; Reproduced: pp. 208, 210, 213, 214. url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152439 "Museum Accessions," The Magazine Antiques, 103, no. 5 (May 1973), repr. p. 866. page number: url: Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 167 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n187 Lindemann, Bernd Wolfgang. "Ferdinand Tietz: Probleme des kleinplastischen Werks," Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins Für Kunstwissenschaft 37, Heft 1/4 (1983), 73-108 page number: Mentioned: pp. 82, 84; Reproduced: p. 85 url: Lindemann, Bernd Wolfgang. Ferdinand Tietz, 1708-1777: Studien zu Werk, Stil und Ikonographie. Weissenhorn: A.H. Konrad, 1989. page number: Mentio ned: pp. 321-322; Reproduced: p. 108, no. 105 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.65/1971.65_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.65/1971.65_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.65/1971.65_full.tif