Please complete the form to email this item.

Relief - Childhood of Jupiter
  • Childhood of Jupiter
    Elhafen, Ignaz, born 1658 - died 1715
  • Enlarge image

Childhood of Jupiter

  • Object:

    Relief

  • Place of origin:

    Germany (made)

  • Date:

    ca. 1700 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Elhafen, Ignaz, born 1658 - died 1715 (maker)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Ivory

  • Credit Line:

    Given by Dr W. L. Hildburgh FSA

  • Museum number:

    A.49-1949

  • Gallery location:

    Sculpture, room 111, case dr7

  • Download image

The monochrome colouring of material meant that ivories such as this could ape in miniature the ancient marbles much valued by connoisseurs and collectors of the time. Jupiter was reared on a mountainside in order that his father, Cronos, would not swallow him up.

Physical description

On the left a satyr is seated on a rock. In his left hand he holds a tambourine and in his right a tree branch, while behind him a female figure plays the cymbals. In the centre, in front of a tree, a half draped female figure milks a goat. At her side a child is seated holding a bottle and on the right another satyr plays a flute. In the background more figures revel.

Place of Origin

Germany (made)

Date

ca. 1700 (made)

Artist/maker

Elhafen, Ignaz, born 1658 - died 1715 (maker)

Materials and Techniques

Ivory

Dimensions

Length: 18.73 cm, Width: 10.16 cm

Object history note

Given by Dr. W. L. Hildburgh, F. S. A.

Descriptive line

Relief, ivory, The Childhood of Jupiter (?), by Ignaz Elhafen, German, about 1700

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Theuerkauff, Christian, ed. Elfenbein, Sammlung Reiner Winkler, Vol I, 1984, p. 39, no. 13
Theuerkauff, Christian. 'Der "Helffenbeinarbeiter" Ignaz Elhafen', in: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, 21.1968, p. 92-157

Materials

Ivory

Subjects depicted

Tree; Child; Female figure; Goat; Jupiter; Satyr; Bottle; Tambourine; Cymbals; Amalthea; Flute (musical instrument)

Categories

Sculpture; Myths & Legends

Collection code

SCP

Download image
Qr_O89206
Ajax-loader