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Putti Pair

mid-1700s

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Ferdinand Tietz

(Austrian, 1708–1777)

Germany, near Bamberg, 18th century

Painted and gilded wood

Overall: 55.9 x 41.9 x 41.9 cm (22 x 16 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1971.8

Location

214 Central and Northern European

Description

These airborne cherubs probably formed part of the decorations crowning an church altar. One of the putti holds a heart, which would originally have included a flame (now lost). An expression of religious fervor, the burning heart also referenced the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which in Christian imagery symbolized Christ’s love for humanity.

Artist biography

Ferdinand Tietz

Austrian sculptor, baptized 1708, died 1777, active in Germany

Provenance

Kurt Rossacher (Salzburg, Austria), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971.

Citations

"Year in Review" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LVIII, no.12 (December, 1971): 96. Reproduced: p. 96

Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1971." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 1 (1972): 3-46. Referenced: cat. no. 15, p. 40, Reproduced: p. 11 www.jstor.org

Henry Hawley, "Three Works by Ferdinand Tietz from Schloss Seehof," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art LIX (September 1972): 204-211. Reproduced: p. 207, fig. 3 www.jstor.org

"Museum Accessions." The Magazine Antiques CIII, no. 5 (May 1973): 866-886. Reproduced: p. 866

Ditner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Dissertation. Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University, 1986. Mentioned: p. 438-440; Reproduced: fig. 59a

Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).

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