Venus and a Satyr
c. 1700
Ignaz Elhafen
Ignaz Elhafen (German, 1658–1715)
European Painting and Sculpture
Venus and a Satyr , c. 1700. Ignaz Elhafen (German, 1658–1715). Ivory; overall: 15.5 x 12.4 x 3 cm (6 1/8 x 4 7/8 x 1 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1982.144 Elhafen depicted mythological scenes in many small ivory reliefs intended for domestic decoration. As with any work in ivory, the size of the tusk dictated this relief’s scale.
- Maker/Artist
- Ignaz Elhafen
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- ivory
- Medium
- ivory
- Dimensions
- Overall: 15.5 x 12.4 x 3 cm (6 1/8 x 4 7/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: inscribed in ink, almost certainly by a later hand, on back: Jupiter . . . a trompe ANTIOPE/SOUS la forme d'un Satyre/16 (?) 7 à Rome.
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1982.144
- Credit Line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Year in Review for 1982, CMA 1983: "Year in Review 1982," Bulletin, LXX (Jan. 1983), p. 50, cat. no. 12, repr. p. 12
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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