Model for the so-called "Female Saint of Starnberg". Culture: German, Munich. Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): H. 8 1/8 x W. 4 1/8 x D. 2 7/8 in. (20.6 x 10.5 x 7.3 cm). Maker: Ignaz Günther (German, Altmannstein 1725-1775 Munich). Date: ca. 1755.The celebrated eighteenth-century Munich court sculptor Ignaz Günther carved this mesmerizing statuette. It is a "bozetto," or working model, for the nearly lifesize sculpture of the so-called "Female Saint of Starnberg," whose haunting composition was widely considered to be one of the artist's most innovative and poignant figural inventions. Günther captured the principal forms and volumes and the essential elements of the composition in his 'bozetto" in the same way a painter would use a sketch. Though the model's surface is still angular and the detailing is uneven, its elegance and courtly gesture presage its transformation into a large figure. The seductive twisting of the saint's body, her theatrically animated costume rippling in an i

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Model for the so-called "Female Saint of Starnberg". Culture: German, Munich. Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): H. 8 1/8 x W. 4 1/8 x D. 2 7/8 in. (20.6 x 10.5 x 7.3 cm). Maker: Ignaz Günther (German, Altmannstein 1725-1775 Munich). Date: ca. 1755.The celebrated eighteenth-century Munich court sculptor Ignaz Günther carved this mesmerizing statuette. It is a "bozetto," or working model, for the nearly lifesize sculpture of the so-called "Female Saint of Starnberg," whose haunting composition was widely considered to be one of the artist's most innovative and poignant figural inventions. Günther captured the principal forms and volumes and the essential elements of the composition in his 'bozetto" in the same way a painter would use a sketch. Though the model's surface is still angular and the detailing is uneven, its elegance and courtly gesture presage its transformation into a large figure. The seductive twisting of the saint's body, her theatrically animated costume rippling in an i

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