Cleveland Museum of Art

Male Figure

Ignaz Günther

Date

c. 1760

Medium

lindenwood

Culture

Germany, Munich, 18th century

Department

European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This sensuously carved figure probably functioned as a term, an architectural element that incorporates a head and torso atop a tapering pillar typically used as a decorative support, for example on either side of a doorway. The sculpture was likely originally gilded, which would have enhanced appreciation of the torso’s beautifully articulated musculature.

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