Saint Deicolus and the Boar
1747–48
- Medium
- pen and brown and gray inks and brush and gray wash heightened with white gouache; incised, verso coated with red chalk
- Dimensions
- 52.2 × 73.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-192369
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 fo…
Provenance
Allen Fund, 1967.22
Registry history
- 1747–48 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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