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Calvary Group
Attributed to: Franz Schwanthaler
Austrian
17th–18th century
Object Place: Europe, Austria
Medium/Technique
Wood; Boxwood
Dimensions
16.51 x 14.61 cm (6 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frederick Mont and Mrs. Betty Mont
Accession Number59.35
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionShaped and mounded rectangular base with free-standing curled branch at end; seated, reclining and standing robed figures (one hand missing from last two). Depression at back (for cross ?).
ProvenanceOscar Bondy (b. 1870 - d. 1944) and Elisabeth Bondy, Vienna and New York [see note 1]; probably sold by Mrs. Bondy to Frederick Mont (dealer), New York [see note 2]; 1959, gift of Frederick and Betty Mont to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 8, 1959)
NOTES:
[1] An Oscar Bondy label with the number 706 is located on the bottom of the sculpture. Attempts to identify this sculpture in inventories of Oscar Bondy's collection, however, have not been successful.
Oscar Bondy, a Jewish businessman living in Vienna, had owned a vast collection of paintings, sculptures, and works of decorative art, which was seized and expropriated with the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938. Mr. Bondy and his wife left Europe and emigrated to the United States, where he passed away in 1944. In the years following World War II, much of his collection was restituted to his widow and subsequently sold on the New York art market, particularly through Mont.
NOTES:
[1] An Oscar Bondy label with the number 706 is located on the bottom of the sculpture. Attempts to identify this sculpture in inventories of Oscar Bondy's collection, however, have not been successful.
Oscar Bondy, a Jewish businessman living in Vienna, had owned a vast collection of paintings, sculptures, and works of decorative art, which was seized and expropriated with the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938. Mr. Bondy and his wife left Europe and emigrated to the United States, where he passed away in 1944. In the years following World War II, much of his collection was restituted to his widow and subsequently sold on the New York art market, particularly through Mont.