Cleveland Museum of Art

The Annunciation

Johann Michael Düchert

Date

1750s

Medium

ivory, ebony, velvet, in the original gilded and glazed frame

Culture

Germany, 18th century

Department

European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This object entered the collection attributed to the German sculptor Johann Paul Egell. However, this attribution never sat comfortably because Egell mostly worked on large-scale commissions in stone, stucco, and wood, rather than with these more precious materials. Recent research indicates that the work is by Düchert, one of Egell's most gifted students, who translated Egell's distinct visual language—the elongated figures, tiny heads, unusually flattened space, and planar handling of drapery—into small-scale ivories.

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