cma-european-art: The Annunciation, Johann Michael Düchert , 1750s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Europea
cma-european-art: The Annunciation, Johann Michael Düchert , 1750s, Cleveland Museum of Art: European Painting and SculptureThis object entered the collection attributed to the German sculptor Johann Paul Egell. However, this attribution never sat comfortably because Egell mostly worked on large-scale commissions in stone, stucco, and wood, rather than with these more precious materials. Recent research indicates that the work is by Düchert, one of Egell’s most gifted students, who translated Egell’s distinct visual language—the elongated figures, tiny heads, unusually flattened space, and planar handling of drapery—into small-scale ivories.Size: Framed: 56.5 x 41.9 x 6.3 cm (22 ¼ x 16 ½ x 2 ½ in.); Unframed: 33.5 x 25.4 x 3.5 cm (13 3/16 x 10 x 1 3/8 in.)Medium: ivory, ebony, velvet, in the original gilded and glazed framehttps://clevelandart.org/art/1981.12 -- source link
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