1952.11.B: The Four Seasons: Summer

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1952.11.B

People

Workshop of Johann Joachim Günther, German (1717 - 1789)

Title

The Four Seasons: Summer

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

c. 1760-1765

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228689

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Sandstone

Dimensions

without base: 254 x 130.18 x 96.52 cm (100 x 51 1/4 x 38 in.)
with base: 330.2 x 130.18 x 96.52 cm (130 x 51 1/4 x 38 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Prince-Bishops of Speyer (Bruchsal). von Bismarck family (Lilenhof, by 1909), by inheritance; Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, 1928, sold; to Edward Murray for his mother, Mrs. T. Morris Murray (Pomfret, CT); Charles Kuhn for the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1943; purchased by Alpheus Hyatt Fund and transferred to Fogg Art Museum, 1952.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund

Accession Year

1952

Object Number

1952.11.B

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Fritz Ziegler, "Die vier Gartenfiguren auf Gut Lilenhof bei Ihringen", Schau-ins-Land (1919), XLVI
• Anton Wetterer, Das Bruchsaler Schloss, seine Baugeschichte und seine Kunst (Karlsruhe, 1927)
• Adolf Feulner, Skulpture und Malerei des 18 Jahrhunderts in Deutschland (Wildpark-Potsdam, 1929), pp. 12, 13, 104; repr. p. 13, fig. 4
• Jakob Rosenberg, "The Four Seasons", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum (December 1945), X, 4
• Otto B. Roegele, Bruchsal wei es war (Karlsruhe, 1955)
• S. Lane Faison, Jr., A Guide to the Art Museums of New England, Harcourt, Brace and Co. (New York, 1958), pp. 116-117; p. 116, fig. 12
• Edward A. Maser, "German and Austrian Rococo in American Collections", The Connoisseur (March 1960), 145, p. 133, fig. 4
• Charles L. Kuhn, German and Netherlandish Sculpture, 1280-1800, the Harvard Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1965), p. 32-33, cat. no. 89 pp. 137-140, repr. as pls. LXXIX and LXXXIII (detail)
• "Boston's Second Pre-Seminar Meeting", The American Wedgwoodian (1967), II, p. 101, 112. p. 101, fig. 1
• "Boston's Second Pre-Seminar Meeting", The American Wedgwoodian (April 1967), II, no. 6, pp. 101, 112; fig. 1
• "Exit Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall", Harvard Bulletin (April 1972), 74
• [no title], Fogg Art Museum Newsletter, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, May 1972), vol. 9, no. 4
• Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, Goethe Institute (Boston, MA, 1972), p. 18, repr. p. 72 as fig. 132
• Marta Osterstrom Renger, "Furnishings of a Baroque Palace", The Connoisseur (July 1976), 192, pp. 194-195, fig. 6
• Kristin A. Mortimer, "Masterpieces of the German Rococo", Apollo (May-June 1978), p. 74-75, fig. 2
• Charles Werner Haxthausen, "The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard: the Germanic Tradition", Apollo (May 1978), vol. 107, no. 195, pp. 403-413, p. 411
• Karin Jaeckel, "Die Sandsteinplastiken im Bruchsaler Schlosspark. Ein Werk des Bildhauers Joachim Guenther (1720-1789)", Einladung zur Mitgliederversammlung (November 3, 1979), pp. 90-100; p. 92, Abb. 4
• Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 81, repr. p. 12
• S. Lane Faison, Jr., The Art Museums of New England, D. R. Godine (Boston, MA, 1982), pp. 181-182, fig. 98
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 353, p. 298

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