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Meeting of the Virgin with Saint Anne and Saint Joachim
Inscriptions
Signed: Schwanndaller
Publications
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).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Johann Georg Schwanthaler (Austrian, active 1773–1790)
- Date
- 1805
- Medium
- Lindenwood
- Dimensions
- Framed: 50 × 36.5 cm (19 11/16 × 14 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- relief
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- Austria
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Anonymous Gift
- Accession no.
- 1966.534
Provenance
Evalene Flannery and Thomas F. Flannery, Jr., Wilmette, Illinois, by 1966; given to the Art Institute, 1966.
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