Jan Meyssens and Johann Wilhelm Baur
Johann Wilhelm Baur
1634-1644
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 175 × 120 mm. (6 7/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
Plate: 162 × 112 mm. (6 3/8 × 4 7/16 in.)
Image: 137 × 106 mm. (5 3/8 × 4 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.4712
Inscribed: Recto: below image, center, in plate "IEAN GUILLAUME BAUUR / Natif de Strasburg, il fai soit merveille en la miniature, il a demeuré a Rome chez le du(?)o de / Brassignano, l'an 1637. it estoit a Venise; et de la il est venu vers l'Empereur d'Almaigne / Ferdinand, à Viene: es(?)tant son paintre, mourut l'an 1640."; below image, lower center left, in plate "Io. Guillelmus Bauur pinxit"; below image, lower center right, in plate "I. Meyssens fecit et excudit."; below image, lower center left, in graphite "LB.8. Vol. 3. P. 24"; below image, lower right, in graphite "79-1." Verso: lower center in graphite diamond with "3688"; lower right in graphite "79[underlined] / 1-"
Markings: CM: Claghorn WM: [indecipherable]
