February 2018 Decorative Arts
Christ as the Good Shepherd
Dressed in a tunic with a twirling drape, a young child is walking forward, carrying on his shoulders a small lamb which he holds by the legs. With an audacious technical virtuosity, this small Good Shepherd ivory amazes by the graphic and nervous treatment of the garment, the expressiveness of the face and the moving representation of his young flesh. Recently rediscovered, it is one the best ivory works by Christoph Daniel Schenck, an active sculptor for the Counter-Reformation in the region of Constance at the end of the XVIIth century.
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Christoph Daniel SCHENCK (1633-1691)
Christ as the Good Shepherd
Constance, 1677
Ivory, on an ebony base
11.4 x 4.8 x 3.7 cm
Base : 5.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm
« C.D. Schenck. Inv: et. sculp. .A. 1677. » on the ivory
FGA-AD-BA-0163
Provenance
Ricardo Traumann’s collection, Madrid, before 1901-1936
Sr. J. Valenciano, Barcelona, 1936
Torelló’s collection, Barcelona
Torelló family’s collection until 2017
Erik Bizjet, Sculpture and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 2017
© Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Genève. Photographer : Thierry Ollivier
See also
June 2020 Decorative Arts
Nicolas PIPER D’ARRAS, known as Niccolò PIPPI (attr.)
Descent from the Cross
Circa 1580-1585
Rome
September 2023 African Contemporary Art and of the Diaspora
Georgina Maxim (Harare, Zimbabwe, 1980)
Dear Fesmeri and Mareni, the dress doesn’t fit III
2022
