Long nineteenth century · Cleveland Museum of Art · 1953.286
Christ at the Column
Johann Baptist Hagenauer, 1756
Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund · Public domain
- Artist
- Johann Baptist Hagenauer
- Date
- 1756
- Medium
- gilt bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 19.6 x 10.2 x 11.3 cm (7 11/16 x 4 x 4 7/16 in.)
- Era
- Long nineteenth century
Why it matters
Considered to be one of the masterpieces of his youth, Hagenauer cast this bronze while a student at the Vienna Academy, where he studied between 1754 and 1759. The authorship and date is verified by an inscription found at the base of the stake: IOANNES HAGENAUER SALISBURGENSIS INVENIT ED FECIT 1756. This signature appears on several of Hagenauer's early works.