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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1952.11.D
People
Workshop of Johann Joachim Günther, German (1717 - 1789)
Title
The Four Seasons: Winter
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1760-1765
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228756

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sandstone
Dimensions
without base: 256.54 x 130.18 x 96.52 cm (101 x 51 1/4 x 38 in.)
with base: 332.74 x 130.18 x 96.52 cm (131 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.D
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description

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, 104
  • 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
  • Edward A. Maser, "German and Austrian Rococo in American Collections", The Connoisseur (March 1960), 145, p. 133
  • Charles L. Kuhn, German and Netherlandish Sculpture, 1280-1800, the Harvard Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1965), p. 32-33, cat. no. 91 pp. 137-140, repr. as pls. LXXXI and LXXXII (detail)
  • "Boston's Second Pre-Seminar Meeting", The American Wedgwoodian (April 1967), II, no. 6, pp. 101, 112
  • Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, Goethe Institute (Boston, MA, 1972), p. 18, repr. p. 73 as fig. 134
  • Marta Osterstrom Renger, "Furnishings of a Baroque Palace", The Connoisseur (July 1976), 192, pp. 194-195
  • Kristin A. Mortimer, "Masterpieces of the German Rococo", Apollo (May-June 1978), p. 74-75, fig. 4
  • 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. 93, Abb. 6
  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 81
  • S. Lane Faison, Jr., The Art Museums of New England, D. R. Godine (Boston, MA, 1982), pp. 181-182
  • 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, repr.

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