id:			147106
accession number:	1973.101
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Male Figure, c. 1760. Ignaz Günther (German, 1725–1775). Lindenwood; overall: 95.3 x 65.4 x 31.8 cm (37 1/2 x 25 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1973.101

title:				Male Figure
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creation date:			c. 1760
creation date earliest:		1755
creation date latest:		1765
current location:		214 Central and Northern European
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Germany, Munich, 18th century
technique:	lindenwood
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: 95.3 x 65.4 x 31.8 cm (37 1/2 x 25 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1973
	opening date:   1974-01-30T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1973</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).

	title:		Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture
	opening date:   1975-09-24T04:00:00
	<i>Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Munich collection, c. 1890
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	Stanford White (New York, New York)
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	Robert W. White (New York, New York)
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	Michael Hall Fine Art, (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1973.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Maser, Edward A. "18th Century in Europe and the United States." In <em>Encyclopedia of World Art, vol. XVI, </em>Bernard S.<em> </em>Myers, ed., 211-238.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 217; reproduced: pl. 243
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	"The Year in Review for 1973." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 6, p. 73; Reproduced p. 45
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513

	Woeckel, Gerhard P. <em>Ignaz Günther: die Handzeichnungen des kurfürstlich bayerischen Hofbildhauers Franz Ignaz Günther (1725-1775)</em>. Weissenhorn, Germany: A. Konrad, 1975.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 342-345; Reproduced: fig. 274,275,277
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Gabriel P. Weisberg, and H. W. Janson. <em>Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 4
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 166
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n186

	Ditner, David Charles. <em>Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>.  Dissertation. Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University,1986.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 356-360; fig. 45a
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