mezzotint, handmade paper, 41 x 26.5 cm, signed p.d.: "Joh.Elias Haid fecit Aug.Vind.1779" . Good condition. Strong contrasting print, spot-fixed at upper corners to card.
Portrait of Musarion - the beautiful heroine of C.M.Wieland's novel "Musarion" published in 1768. The author was a famous German writer of the Enlightenment and Romantic era, a friend of Goethe. The portrait is taken from a painting by painter Rosalba Carrier (1673-1757) from Venice. The author of the print personally portrayed Voltaire, Rousseau, Napoleon. The original portrait in pastel is in London at the Royal Collection where the print is also offered. No pieces of it have appeared at auction in Europe in the last 20 years.
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