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Saint Deicolus and the Boar

1747–48

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner

(German, 1712–1761)

Germany, 18th century

Pen and brown and gray ink and brush and gray wash heightened with white gouache; incised, verso coated with red chalk

Support: Two sheets (joined) of blue laid paper

Sheet: 52.2 x 73.5 cm (20 9/16 x 28 15/16 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1967.22

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The rarely depicted St. Deicolus was an Irish monk who lived in the 600s and was known for his retreat to a hermitage in a forest.

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German artist Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner's innovations in rococo design are magnificently demonstrated in this sheet showing the story of Saint Deicolus and the Boar. The format of the work imitates that of a decorative cartouche, an ornamental framework surrounding an open field usually reserved for an inscription or emblem. Baumgartner ingeniously adapted the cartouche form for this scene: the framing elements seem to grow out of the landscape but are clearly artificial, and have the appearance of exuberant metalwork intertwined with vegetation and rocks. Deicolus was an Irish saint who founded an abbey in the Burgundy region of France. Baumgartner shows an incident in which Deicolus saved a boar from the hunting party of the ruler Clotaire II. The highly finished drawing on blue paper was made as a design for print from a suite combining saints with depictions of the hunt.

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Inscription

upper right, in graphite: a 30; verso, upper left, in graphite: 70_-50

Provenance

1966-1967

with C. G. Boerner, Inc., Dusseldorf.

1967-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Citations

C.G. Boerner (Firm), and Ausstellung. Ausgewählte Druckgraphik und Handzeichnungen aus vier Jahrhunderten. 1966. no. 49

C.G. Boerner (Firm). Handzeichnungen vor 1900. Düsseldorf: Boerner, 1966. no. 5

Rowlands, John. Reviewed Works: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. Die Deutschen Handzeichnungen, I: Die Handzeichnungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts by Fritz Zink; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. Die Deutschen Handzeichnungen, IV: Die Handzeichnungen des 18. Jahrhunderts by Monika Heffels. Master Drawings 8, no. 3 (1970): 290-95. p. 294 www.jstor.org

Sotheby Mak van Waay V. V., Amsterdam, Sale Catalogue 320 Fine Dutch, Flemish, and German Drawings, 18 November 1980. p. 67, under no. 187.

Theilmann, Rudolf, Gert Reising, and Johann Eckart von Borries. 100 Zeichnungen und Drucke aus dem Kupferstichkabinett. Karlsruhe: Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 1988. p. 102, under no. 35

Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta. Central European Drawings, 1680-1800: A Selection from American Collections. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 1989. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 9, p. 21, pp. 119-20, cat. no. 39, under cat. no. 40

C.G. Boerner (Firm). Aus unseren Mappen 1989. Düsseldorf: C.G. Boerner, 1989. no. 28

Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. Mentioned: cat. no. 63, pp. 9-10, pp.156-57, p. 292; Reproduced: p. 157

C.G. Boerner (Firm), "Notable Works of Art Now on the Market: Supplement." The Burlington Magazine 109, no. 777 (1967). under plate XLIII www.jstor.org

Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968).

German Drawings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 1-July 13, 1980).

18th Century Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981).

Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983).

Central European Drawings, 1680-1800: A Selection from American Collections. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ (organizer) (October 21-December 3, 1989); Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara, CA (January 10-February 25, 1990).

The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993).

Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

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