Christ at the Column

About the Artwork

Considered to be one of the masterpieces of his youth, Hagenauer cast this bronze while a student at the Vienna Academy, where he studied between 1754 and 1759. The authorship and date is verified by an inscription found at the base of the stake: IOANNES HAGENAUER SALISBURGENSIS INVENIT ED FECIT 1756. This signature appears on several of Hagenauer's early works.

Inscriptions

at base of stake: IOANNES HAGENAUER SALISBURGENSIS INVENIT ED FECIT 1756.

Provenance

1913-52: Emil Delmar [1876-1959], Budapest, Hungary, sold to R. Stora and Company 1952-53: (R. Stora and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1953-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Exhibition history

The Age of Excellence: Rococo and It's Effect. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (April 25-June 14, 1959). Baroque Sculpture. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (organizer) (March 7-27, 1965). Central Europe: 1600-1800. John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (organizer) (January 27-February 27, 1972). Georg Raphael Donner. Osterreichische Galeri, Vienna, Austria (organizer) (May 1-August 1, 1993).

Quick Overview

Artist: Johann Baptist Hagenauer (Austrian, 1732–1810)
Date: 1756
Medium: gilt bronze
Dimensions: Overall: 19.6 x 10.2 x 11.3 cm (7 11/16 x 4 x 4 7/16 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: Sculpture
Department: European Painting and Sculpture
Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
Accession no.: 1953.286

More by Johann Baptist Hagenauer in museum collections

Christ at the Column
Johann Baptist Hagenauer
ca. 1754–56 · Sculpture
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00016876

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.