Cleveland Museum of Art
Male Figure
Ignaz GüntherLinkedCulture matchlcp-30c100cc4454
- Date
- c. 1760
- Medium
- lindenwood
- Culture
- Germany, Munich, 18th century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 147106
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- Munich collection, c. 1890 | Stanford White (New York, New York) | Robert W. White (New York, New York) | Michael Hall Fine Art, (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1973.
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