id:			150720
accession number:	1982.144
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.144
updated:		2023-03-11 20:51:17.246000

Venus and a Satyr , c. 1700. Ignaz Elhafen (German, 1658–1715). Ivory; overall: 15.5 x 12.4 x 3 cm (6 1/8 x 4 7/8 x 1 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1982.144

title:				Venus and a Satyr 
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creation date:			c. 1700
creation date earliest:		1695
creation date latest:		1705
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Germany, late 17th-early 18th Century
technique:	ivory
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Ignaz Elhafen (German, 1658–1715)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 15.5 x 12.4 x 3 cm (6 1/8 x 4 7/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
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	inscription:	inscribed in ink, almost certainly by a later hand, on back:  Jupiter . . . a trompe ANTIOPE/SOUS la forme d'un Satyre/16 (?) 7 à Rome.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1982
	opening date:   1983-01-05T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1982</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA 1983:  "Year in Review 1982," Bulletin, LXX (Jan. 1983), p. 50, cat. no. 12, repr. p. 12

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PROVENANCE

	Baron Guido von Conrad, Luxemburg
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	art market, Germany (sold, Lempertz, Cologne, June 3-9, 1958, lot no. 57, to a private collector
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	Private collector, sold, Weinmüller, Munich, October 5-6, 1960, lot no. 100, illus. pl. 63, to a private collector
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	Private collector, sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet and Co., London, April 1982, lot no. 264, illus., to David Carritt, Ltd.
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	David Carritt, Ltd. (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
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fun fact:


digital description:
Elhafen depicted mythological scenes in many small ivory reliefs intended for domestic decoration. As with any work in ivory, the size of the tusk dictated this relief’s scale.

wall description:
Elhafen depicted mythological scenes in many small ivory reliefs intended for domestic decoration. As with any work in ivory, the size of the tusk dictated this relief’s scale.
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