Christ at the Column

The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Christ at the Column as sculpture (Austria · 1756).

WHY IT’S INTERESTING

With the energy of the imbalanced composition, Hagenauer emphasizes this heightened moment of the Passion of Christ.

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A CLOSER LOOK

The museum identifies this sculpture as gilt bronze and credits Johann Baptist Hagenauer (Austrian, 1732–1810).

The museum's collection notes: Considered to be one of the masterpieces of his youth, Hagenauer cast this bronze while a student at the Vienna Academy, where he studied between 1754 and 1759. The authorship and date is verified by an inscription found at the base of the stake: IOANNES HAGENAUER SALISBURGENSIS INVENIT ED FECIT 1756. This signature appears on several of Hagenauer's early works.

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