Saint Deicolus and the boar

Baumgartner, Johann Wolfgang (1712-1761)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1747-1748
Height:
52.2 cm  (20 9/16 in.)
Width:
73.5 cm  (28 15/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
pen and brown and gray ink and brush and gray wash heightened with white gouache; incised, verso coated with red chalk

    Item location

  • Cleveland Museum of Art
    [Museum inv. no.: 1967.22]

Description

From the Cleveland Museum website: "Baumgartner's innovations in rococo design are magnificently demonstrated in this sheet showing the story of Saint Deicolus and the Boar. Deicolus was an Irish saint who founded an abbey in the Burgundy region of France. Baumgartner shows an incident in which Deicolus saved a boar from the hunting party of the ruler Clotaire II." Two men on horseback lead the hunt, one of whom plays a coiled horn.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Natural horn [4126]

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Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

2095