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AT-00010788Venus and a Satyr
About the Artwork
Elhafen depicted mythological scenes in many small ivory reliefs intended for domestic decoration. As with any work in ivory, the size of the tusk dictated this relief’s scale.
Inscriptions
inscribed in ink, almost certainly by a later hand, on back: Jupiter . . . a trompe ANTIOPE/SOUS la forme d'un Satyre/16 (?) 7 à Rome.
Provenance
Baron Guido von Conrad, Luxemburg art market, Germany (sold, Lempertz, Cologne, June 3-9, 1958, lot no. 57, to a private collector Private collector, sold, Weinmüller, Munich, October 5-6, 1960, lot no. 100, illus. pl. 63, to a private collector Private collector, sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet and Co., London, April 1982, lot no. 264, illus., to David Carritt, Ltd. David Carritt, Ltd. (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
Exhibition history
The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ignaz Elhafen (German, 1658–1715)
- Date
- c. 1700
- Medium
- ivory
- Dimensions
- Overall: 15.5 x 12.4 x 3 cm (6 1/8 x 4 7/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Accession no.
- 1982.144
Open-access museum record · AT-00010788
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