Cleveland Museum of Art

Christ at the Column

Johann Baptist Hagenauer

Date

1756

Medium

gilt bronze

Culture

Austria

Department

European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Considered to be one of the masterpieces of his youth, Hagenauer cast this bronze while a student at the Vienna Academy, where he studied between 1754 and 1759. The authorship and date is verified by an inscription found at the base of the stake: IOANNES HAGENAUER SALISBURGENSIS INVENIT ED FECIT 1756. This signature appears on several of Hagenauer's early works. With the energy of the imbalanced composition, Hagenauer emphasizes this heightened moment of the Passion of Christ.

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