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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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143283
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Saint Deicolus and the Boar
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143283
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Saint Deicolus and the Boar
description
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.
date
1747–48
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en
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Q80043747
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2870
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Drawing
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1
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Sheet: 52.2 x 73.5 cm (20 9/16 x 28 15/16 in.)
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Germany, 18th century
accession
1967.22
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pen and brown and gray inks and brush and gray wash heightened with white gouache; incised, verso coated with red chalk
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Saint Deicolus and the Boar, 1747–48. Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner (German, 1712–1761). Pen and brown and gray inks and brush and gray wash heightened with white gouache; incised, verso coated with red chalk; sheet: 52.2 x 73.5 cm (20 9/16 x 28 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1967.22
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description
two sheets (joined) of blue laid paper
collection
DR - German
inscriptions
inscription
Upper right, in graphite: a 30
inscription
verso, upper left, in graphite: 70_-50
didYouKnow
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.
citations
citation
C.G. Boerner (Firm), and Ausstellung. Ausgewählte Druckgraphik und Handzeichnungen aus vier Jahrhunderten. 1966.
page_number
no. 49
citation
C.G. Boerner (Firm). Handzeichnungen vor 1900. Düsseldorf: Boerner, 1966.
page_number
no. 5
citation
“Year in Review.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 54, no. 10 (December 1967): 302–346.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 318; Mentioned: p. 344, no. 72
citation
“Annual Report for 1967.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 55, no. 6 (June 1968): 167–205.
page_number
Reproduced: Cover; Mentioned: p. 182
citation
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. <em>Master Drawings</em> 8, no. 3 (1970): 290-95.
page_number
p. 294
url
www.jstor.org/stable/1553059.
citation
Sotheby Mak van Waay V. V., Amsterdam, Sale Catalogue 320 Fine Dutch, Flemish, and German Drawings, 18 November 1980.
page_number
p. 67, under no. 187.
citation
Theilmann, Rudolf, Gert Reising, and Johann Eckart von Borries. 100 Zeichnungen und Drucke aus dem Kupferstichkabinett. Karlsruhe: Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 1988.
page_number
p. 102, under no. 35
citation
Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta. <em>Central European Drawings, 1680-1800: A Selection from American Collections.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 1989.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 9, p. 21, pp. 119-20, cat. no. 39, under cat. no. 40
citation
C.G. Boerner (Firm). Aus unseren Mappen 1989. Düsseldorf: C.G. Boerner, 1989.
page_number
no. 28
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned: cat. no. 63, pp. 9-10, pp.156-57, p. 292; Reproduced: p. 157
citation
C.G. Boerner (Firm), "Notable Works of Art Now on the Market: Supplement." <em>The Burlington Magazine</em> 109, no. 777 (1967).
page_number
under plate XLIII
url
www.jstor.org/stable/875515.
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Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 07:21:52.004000
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143283
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pen and brown and gray inks and brush and gray wash heightened with white gouache; incised, verso coated with red chalk
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