Putto Meinrad Guggenbichler (1649 Einsiedeln/Switzerland - 1723 Mondsee/Upper Austria), workshop, about 1700 With outstretched arms turned to the left, the legs bent. Cloth draped in parallel folds around the shoulders and the middle of the body. Bark, full-round carved, fingers damaged. Polychrome paint overlaid. H. 56 cm. Characteristic putti head of the Guggenbichlerian type with high forehead and moving hairstyle, as it can be found on the column-bearing angels at the feeding altar of the former collegiate church in Mondsee. Reproduced from Decker, Heinrich, Meinrad Guggenbichler. Vienna 1949, fig. 8ff.

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