Death with Left Hand Raised
SculptureGerman17th century

Death with Left Hand Raised

1600-1650

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist
Classification
Sculpture
Medium
Linden wood
Culture
German
Century
17th century
Division
European and American Art
Department
Busch-Reisinger Museum

Dimensions

25.4 × 14 × 7.5 cm (10 × 5 1/2 × 2 15/16 in.)

Provenance

[Art dealer, Germany, sold]; [to M. Glueckselig & Son, New York, NY (?-1959), sold]; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1959. Notes: According to a letter from Frederick Glueckselig of M. Glueckselig & Son to Charles L. Kuhn at the Busch-Reisinger Museum dated April 28, 1959, Mr. Glueckselig purchased both BR59.32 and BR59.33 from a well-known German art dealer without a detailed provenance history. Mr. Glueckselig did not disclose the name of the German art dealer and merely specified that the dealer had recently passed away.

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