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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Saint John of Nepomuk by Peter Hencke
    Peter Hencke. Saint John of Nepomuk, c. 1750. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001944

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    Saint John of Nepomuk

    by Peter Hencke

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed: PETER . HENCKE . SP .

    Publications

    Vier Generaties Nystad, 1862–1962 (Lochem and The Hague, 1962), n.p., ill. Eugen von Philippovich, "Peter Hencke, der Monogrammist JPH und PH" in Mainz und der Mittelrhein in der europäischen Kunstgeschichte. Studien für Fritz Volbach zur seinem 70. Geburtstag, Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte und christlichen Archäologie 6 (1966), pp. 681-82, figs. 434-35. Christian Theuerkauff, Elfenbein. Sammlung Reiner Winkler (Munich, 1984), pp. 58-59, under no. 25. Ian Wardropper and Lynn Springer Roberts, European Decorative Arts in The Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago, 1991), pp. 49,50,53 (ill.). Malcolm Baker, "Francis van Bossuit, Böttger Stoneware and the 'Judith' Reliefs" in Skulptur in Süddeutschland 1400-1700. Festschrift für Alfred Schädler, ed. Rainer Kahsnitz and Peter Volk (Munich and Berlin, 1998), p. 287. Claude Ferment, Les Statuettes d’ivoire en Europe du moyen age au XIXe siècle (Liège, 2000), pp. 194-95, fig. XI.8. Marjorie Trusted, Victoria and Albert Museum. Baroque and later Ivories (London, 2013), p. 90, under no. 71.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Peter Hencke (German, died 1777)
    Date
    c. 1750
    Medium
    Ivory
    Dimensions
    H.: 27.9 cm (11 in.); With base: H.: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Sculpture
    Classification
    statuette
    Style
    18th Century
    Place
    Germany
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Richard T. Crane Jr. Memorial Endowment
    Accession no.
    1959.496

    Provenance

    W.C. Smidt van Gelder, Aerdenhout, The Netherlands, by 1959 [according to Nijstad invoice in curatorial file]; sold to Nijstad Antiquairs, The Hague, in August 1959 [according to invoice cited above]; sold by Nijstad to the Art Institute, 1959.

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