Portret van Johannes Stumpf
1662
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
146; 222
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228
Art Historical Context
### Portrait of Johannes Stumpf Step into the world of 17th-century Swiss portraiture with *Portret van Johannes Stumpf*, a delicate engraving by Conrad Meyer from 1662. Measuring just 222 mm high by 146 mm wide, this intimate print captures the likeness of Johannes Stumpf (1500–1578), a prominent Swiss historian, chronicler, and reformer best known for his influential *Schweizer Chronik*. Created nearly a century after Stumpf's death, the work reflects the enduring legacy of Renaissance humanism in Protestant Switzerland, where such portraits honored intellectual giants through reproducible ...
About the Artist
Conrad Meyer · 1618–1689
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