18th Century and Earlier Art
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Color: Silver
Dog scratching its ear
Located in PARIS, FR
This amusing naturalistic sculpture in silver-plated pewter was probably made in the 17th century by Georg Schweigger. Inspired by a model created by another Nuremberg sculptor, Peter Flötner, it bears witness to the persistence during the baroque era of the naturalistic taste that emerged in the Renaissance. Intended as an ornament for some Kunstkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, this sculpture was a great success, as can be seen from the presence of similar works in many European museums.
1. Georg Schweigger
Georg Schweigger was a baroque sculptor and medal founder from Nuremberg, known mainly for his small-scale works in stone, carved wood and cast metal. His only large-scale work, the Neptune Fountain, has been in the Petershof Palace, the summer residence of the Tsars near St. Petersburg, since 1797. This monumental sculpture demonstrates his taste for the representation of movement, which we find in this small piece, inspired, as we shall see, by earlier models.
2. The success of a naturalistic theme
As is often the case in the history of art, the source of the Dog scratching his ear theme probably comes from an engraving, and more precisely from one made in Strasbourg in 1480 or in Aschaffenburg in 1481 by the Master of the Housebook, an anonymous engraver working in southern Germany at the end of the 15th century.
This engraving seems to have been Peter Flötner’s (1490 - 1546) source of inspiration. Peter Flötner was a sculptor and engraver who settled in Nuremberg in 1522. The Louvre Museum also has a gilded lead statuette dated between 1500 and 1515 (on deposit at the Musée de L'Œuvre in Strasbourg), which in turn is thought to have served as a model for other known statuettes.
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Category
Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Marble, Silver
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Jan & Caspar Commelin: 17th Century Botanical Engravings, 1st Edition
Located in Richmond, GB
""Horti Medici Amstelodamensis Rariorum"" (Rarities of the Amsterdam Physic Garden),
1st edition, 1697 - 1701. ( Ref: Dunthorne: 81)
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Jan & Caspar Commelin: 17th Century Botanical Engravings, 1st Edition
Located in Richmond, GB
""Horti Medici Amstelodamensis Rariorum"" (Rarities of the Amsterdam Physic Garden),
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Jan Commelin (1629-1692) was Director of the Am...
Category
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Cuzco School Baptismal Dish
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Manuel Ortíz de Zevallos y García, Peru; and by descent in the family to:
Private Collection, New York.
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
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