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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1700 creation date earliest: 1695 creation date latest: 1705 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, late 17th-early 18th Century technique: ivory department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Ignaz Elhafen (German, 1658–1715) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 15.5 x 12.4 x 3 cm (6 1/8 x 4 7/8 x 1 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: 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. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1982 opening date: 1983-01-05T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA 1983: "Year in Review 1982," Bulletin, LXX (Jan. 1983), p. 50, cat. no. 12, repr. p. 12 --- PROVENANCE Baron Guido von Conrad, Luxemburg date: footnotes: citations: art market, Germany (sold, Lempertz, Cologne, June 3-9, 1958, lot no. 57, to a private collector date: footnotes: citations: Private collector, sold, Weinmüller, Munich, October 5-6, 1960, lot no. 100, illus. pl. 63, to a private collector date: footnotes: citations: Private collector, sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet and Co., London, April 1982, lot no. 264, illus., to David Carritt, Ltd. date: footnotes: citations: David Carritt, Ltd. (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. date: footnotes: citations: --- 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.144/1982.144_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.144/1982.144_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.144/1982.144_full.tif