Plate 70: Cephalus and Procris, from 'Ovid's Metamorphoses'

Plate 70: Cephalus and Procris, from 'Ovid's Metamorphoses' by Johann Wilhelm Baur

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 4 7/8 × 8 1/16 in. (12.4 × 20.5 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Olga Sichel and Max Philippson, 1962

Accession Number

62.557.220

About the Artist

Johann Wilhelm Baur · 16071642

Johann Wilhelm Baur was a German draughtsman, painter, and printmaker who came of age in the early seventeenth century and built his reputation through the production of finely detailed illustrations and miniatures. Though the precise details of his training remain incompletely documented, Baur developed his skills in the tradition of German and Northern European graphic art, showing influences fr...

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