Presentation of the Child Jesus to Mary and Joseph

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1805

Johann Georg Schwanthaler (Austrian, active 1773–1790)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Johann Georg Schwanthaler
Title: Presentation of the Child Jesus to Mary and Joseph
Place: Austria (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1805
Medium: Lindenwood
Inscriptions: Signed and dated: John Georg Schhwanndaller / Sculpssit 1605 [date altered from 1805}
Dimensions: Framed: 50 × 36.5 cm (19 11/16 × 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Anonymous Gift
Reference Number: 1966.535
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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).

Evalene Flannery and Thomas F. Flannery, Jr., Wilmette, Illinois, by 1966; given to the Art Institute, 1966.

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