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    "localId": "143283",
    "label": "Saint Deicolus and the Boar",
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    "id": "143283",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "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",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.22",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80043747"
    ],
    "creators": [
        2870
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Drawing"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.22/1967.22_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 52.2 x 73.5 cm (20 9/16 x 28 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Germany, 18th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1967.22"
}

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    "tec": "pen and brown and gray inks and brush and gray wash heightened with white gouache; incised, verso coated with red chalk",
    "tombstone": "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",
    "supportMaterials": [
        {
            "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",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152183"
        },
        {
            "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",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152218"
        },
        {
            "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."
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.22",
    "creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:21:52.004000",
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    "sourceId": 143283,
    "dept": "Drawings",
    "coll": "DR - German",
    "med": "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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        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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