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Jurisprudence, Study

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Creator	Klimt, Gustav, 1862-1918
Title	Jurisprudence, Study
Inscription	inscribed lower right: Gustav Klimt
Date	c.1897-1898
Date Destroyed or Lost	1945
Nationality	Austrian
Medium	oil on canvas
Circumstances of Destruction or Loss	The study for Jurisprudence, along with other paintings from the Lederer collection, was removed to the Schloss Immendorf in Lower Austria for safekeeping where it were destroyed when the castle was burned by retreating SS troops in 1945.
Notes	The Jurisprudence study is a preparatory sketch for the final figure of Jurisprudence that along with Medicine and Philosophy was intended to decorate the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna, all of which were also destroyed at Schloss Immendorf. Klimt's final figure departs radically from this straightforward personification.For more information, see: Novotny, Fritz, and Johannes Dobai. Gustav Klimt; with a Catalogue Raisonne of His Paintings. New York: Praeger, 1968. cat. no. 86
Subjects	World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war Art treasures in war Jurisprudence Personification Allegories Figures -- Female Swords Justice
Source	Library Collection of Study Photographs and Clippings, ca. 1930-2000, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Records, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Form-Genre	Paintings
Collection	Lost Art
Local Item Type	unlabeled clipping
CONTENTdm number	525