The Agony in the Garden, from 'Iconographia'

The Agony in the Garden, from 'Iconographia' by Johann Wilhelm Baur|Melchior Küsel

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Plate: 6 11/16 × 10 1/16 in. (17 × 25.5 cm) Sheet: 8 1/8 × 11 1/4 in. (20.7 × 28.5 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961

Accession Number

61.658.23

About the Artist

Johann Wilhelm Baur|Melchior Küsel · 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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