Bavarian National Museum Munich (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum München)
Artwork
The bozzetto of Juno in the Bavarian National Museum, Munich
Type
Sculpture
Dimensions
Height: 39 cm
Critical History
This threedimensional bozzetto is 39cm high it might be the draft for 1 of 4 sculptures Straub was ordered to create for the Garden of Nymphenburg Castle. The other sculptures represented Jupiter, Mars and Minerva. Straub received the order the 14th April 1766. He was payed for 4 modellos in 1770 with 120fl.1 The sculpture shows a young woman in a selfconscious and nonchalant pose. She is dressed in a somehow erotic way and shows her beautiful body.
The sculpture has the inv. no. Ker 398. The number of the photo is D 68336.
The link to the website of the museum is: www.bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de
Construction / Execution
The bozzetto is executed in terracotta.
Components
Sculpture
The bozzetto of Juno in the Bavarian National Museum, Munich
Author: Johann Baptist Straub (Wiesensteig ca. 1704 – Munich 1784)
Completed: 1766
Material(s): terracotta
Comment
The left hand and the head of the peacock are missing. This sculpture represents Straubs stile in a wonderful way.
Images
Munich Bavarian National Museum the bozzetto of Juno
Catalogue entry prepared by Rupert Karbacher
Recommended citation: Rupert Karbacher, The bozzetto of Juno in the Bavarian National Museum, Munich, in: TrArS – Tracing the Art of the Straub Family, 2018, (accessed 18/11/2025) URL
Sources and Bibliography
Peter Volk, Zur Entstehung der Statuenfolge antiker Götter im Nymphenburger Schloßgarten, in: Ars Bavarica, 10, 1978, 63–68
Peter Volk, Johann Baptist Straub (1704–1784), in: Hofbildhauer Johann Baptist Straub 1704–1784. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 1736–1783. Bildhauer aus Wiesensteig (Veröffentlichungen des Kreisarchivs Göppingen, 10), Walter Ziegler (ed.), Weißenkorn, Anton Konrad Verlag, 1984, 188f.
Bayerische Rokokoplastik. Vom Entwurf zur Ausführung (exhibition catalogue, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich 1985), Peter Volk (ed.), Munich , Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 1985
