Portret van René Descartes
Karl Barth
1828 - 1853
Medium
steel engraving
Dimensions
212; 136
About this artwork
Linksboven genummerd: Meyer's Conv. Lex. N. 423.
About the Artist
Karl Barth · 1787–1853
Karl Barth (also known as Carl Barth or Johann Carl Barth, 1787–1853) was a versatile German artist who worked as a copperplate engraver, draughtsman, painter, illustrator, and portrait engraver during the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Born in Eisfeld in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen and dying in Kassel, Barth exemplified the multi-talented artist-craftsman of the Roman...