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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.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001944
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