The Christ Child
Statuette
ca. 1550-1560 (made)
ca. 1550-1560 (made)
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| Place of origin |
The figure has been assigned to the Nuremberg foundry of Pankraz Labenwolf (b. 1492; d. 1563) because of its close resemblance to the bronze statuette of a boy surmounting the fountain in the courtyard of the Nuremberg Town Hall signed by Labenwolf in 1556 The Labenwolf foundry depended for its model on sculptors working in wood. The wooden model for the statuette of the Town Hall fountain survives in the museum of Nuremberg (attributed to the Nuremberg sculptor Hans Peisser, c. 1503-c. 1571), and the Christ Child shows all the signs of having been cast from a similar wooden model.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | The Christ Child (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Bronze |
| Brief description | Statuette of the Christ Child, bronze, German, 16th century |
| Physical description | Bronze stauette of the Christ Child |
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| Gallery label | The figure has been assigned to the Nuremberg foundry of Pankraz Labenwolf (b. 1492; d. 1563) because of its close resemblance to the bronze statuette of a boy surmounting the fountain in the courtyard of the Nuremberg Town Hall signed by Labenwolf in 1556 The Labenwolf foundry depended for its model on sculptors working in wood. The wooden model for the statuette of the Town Hall fountain survives in the museum of Nuremberg (attributed to the Nuremberg sculptor Hans Peisser, c. 1503-c. 1571), and the Christ Child shows all the signs of having been cast from a similar wooden model.(1993) |
| Object history | The figure has been assigned to the Nuremberg foundry of Pankraz Labenwolf (b. 1492; d. 1563) because of its close resemblance to the bronze statuette of a boy surmounting the fountain in the courtyard of the Nuremberg Town Hall signed by Labenwolf in 1556 The Labenwolf foundry depended for its model on sculptors working in wood. The wooden model for the statuette of the Town Hall fountain survives in the museum of Nuremberg (attributed to the Nuremberg sculptor Hans Peisser, c. 1503-c. 1571), and the Christ Child shows all the signs of having been cast from a similar wooden model. |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | The figure has been assigned to the Nuremberg foundry of Pankraz Labenwolf (b. 1492; d. 1563) because of its close resemblance to the bronze statuette of a boy surmounting the fountain in the courtyard of the Nuremberg Town Hall signed by Labenwolf in 1556 The Labenwolf foundry depended for its model on sculptors working in wood. The wooden model for the statuette of the Town Hall fountain survives in the museum of Nuremberg (attributed to the Nuremberg sculptor Hans Peisser, c. 1503-c. 1571), and the Christ Child shows all the signs of having been cast from a similar wooden model. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | 411-1854 |
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| Record created | January 15, 2003 |
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