Georg Christoph Eimmart II (1638 1705)

Georg Christoph Eimmart II (1638 1705)
Georg Eimmart - Gods feasting and playing music / Description: Gods feasting and playing musical instruments, with below, figures cavorting with sea-creatures; after a bas-relief sculpture by Daniel Neuberger. Inscribed on lower edge inside plate-mark: 'D.Neuberger inv. / G.C. Eimmart del. et sc.' This is one of his most famous prints showing a feast of Gods at the water. / Dimensions: 23,20 x 32,00 cm / Condition: Good impression on the ful lsheet of laid paper with wide margins. Slightly foxed in the margins only. / Literature: Hollstein 3 (one of a series of six)

Le Blanc 1854-89 II.195.314-319 (whole series).

Lit: T. Hampe, 'Das Schwabische Museum', 1930, pp.113-132

Thieme / Becker X, 421. Nagler IV, 293.

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Georg Christoph Eimmart II (printmaker; painter/draughtsman; German; 1638 - 1705)

Painter, engraver and astronomer, b. Regensburg, from 1660 in Nuremberg. Pupil of Jacob von Sandrart.Daniel Neuberger (sculptor/medallist; German; Male; 1621 - 1680)

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Neuberger, Daniel (sculptor/medallist; German; 1621 - 1680)

Sculptor specialising in wax reliefs, worked in Augsburg and Vienna. Examples of his work are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and the V&A. / Medium: Etching