Plate 24: Mercury and Aglauros, from 'Ovid's Metamorphoses'
Catalogue
- Year
- 1641
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet (Trimmed): 5 9/16 × 8 3/8 in. (14.2 × 21.2 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Johann Wilhelm Baur
Artist
Painting
Johann Wilhelm Baur was a German painter and printmaker active in the early seventeenth century, known for detailed landscape compositions and allegorical subject matter executed in oil and etching. Working during the Baroque period, he produced both religious narratives and secular scenes marked by intricate atmospheric effects and careful attention to spatial recession.
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- Johann Wilhelm Baur
- Year
- 1641
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet (Trimmed): 5 9/16 × 8 3/8 in. (14.2 × 21.2 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1641-T010429
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified