Kneeling Saint (1750–1800): Art, History and Details

Kneeling Saint (1750–1800) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This serene figure would originally have been part of a larger group, perhaps shown kneeling in adoration of Christ or the Virgin. He wears a knee-length dalmatic, the ecclesiastical dress of deacons (ordained ministers in the Catholic Church). Saints Lawrence and Stephen were among the most popular deacon saints, but lacking an identifying attribute—probably once attached to the saint’s outstretched hand—it is not possible to associate this figure with a specific saint.

Object facts

• Title: Kneeling Saint
• Date: 1750–1800
• Culture: Germany, Munich, second half 18th century
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: painted and gilded wood
• Dimensions: Overall: 118.1 x 90 x 50 cm (46 1/2 x 35 7/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1961.414

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review 1962." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 9 (1962): 199-227.
• "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." The Art Quarterly XXV, no. 4 (Winter 1962): 396-413.
• Hawley, Henry H. "Eighteenth-century Sculpture from Germany and Austria." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LI, no.1 (January, 1964):3-13.

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