The Agony in the Garden, from 'Iconographia'
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 · 1607–1642
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...