About This Artwork
Johann Georg Schwanthaler
Austrian, active 1773/1790, died shortly before 1810
Presentation of the Child Jesus to Mary and Joseph, 1805
Lindenwood
19 1/4 x 14 3/8 in. (50 x 36.5 cm) (including frame)
Signed and dated: John Georg Schhwanndaller Sculpssit 1605
[date altered from 1805}
Anonymous Gift, 1966.535
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Hermann Ubell-Linz, “Ausgewählte Werke der Kleinplastik im Linzer Museum,” Kunst und Kunsthandwerk 18 (1915), pp. 473-94.
Claudia Diemer, “Unbekannte Arbeiten der Bildhauerfamilie Schwanthaler in Nürnberg und Berlin,” Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums 114 (1980), pp. 105-14.
For biography of Schwanthaler, see:
Die Bildhauerfamilie Schwanthaler: 1633–1848, vom Barock zum Klassizismus (Augustinerchorherrenstift Reichersberg, 1974).
Ownership History
Evalene Flannery and Thomas F. Flannery, Jr., Wilmette, Illinois, by 1966; given to the Art Institute, 1966.