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Chandelier   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Germany)Unknown author
Title
Chandelier
Description
English: This bizarre creation originally had little candleholders attached to the antlers. Chandeliers made from wooden half-figures with elk antlers attached at their backs called "Lüstermännchen" or "Lüsterweibchen," literally "little chandelier man" or "woman" were popular in Germany. Even major artists such as Tilman Riemenschneider designed them. They hung in town meeting halls, inns, hunting lodges and domestic spaces. While the spreading forms of antlers may have suggested its use as a natural chandelier, the addition of a half figure is the kind of hybrid creation that appealed to the medieval taste for fantasy. Many of the existing chandeliers represent a woman holding a coat of arms (with the antlers growing from her back). The motif of a huntsman praying is unusual and may allude to the story of St. Hubert, a huntsman who came across a miraculous stag in the forest and fell on his knees before it in prayer.
Date circa 1500
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(Late Medieval)
Medium wood with polychromy and elk horn
Dimensions 72.5 × 67.5 cm (28.5 × 26.5 in)
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
61.309
Place of creation south Germany
Object history
  • William Randolph Hearst [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • Blumka Gallery, New York
  • Mr. and Mrs. James O. Anderson, 1971, by purchase
  • Walters Art Museum, June 8, 1971, by gift
Exhibition history World of Wonder. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1971-1972.
Credit line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James O. Anderson, 1971
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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