Self-Portrait of Joseph Werner, c. 1662

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 20.8 x 13.2 cm (8 3/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

sheet: 22.5 x 15.6 cm (8 7/8 x 6 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel

Accession Number

2000.7.13

Artists / Makers

Franz Ertinger (artist) French, 1640 - c. 1710

Joseph Werner (artist after) Swiss, 1637 - 1710

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right below image in plate: Franz Ertinger fecit.; across lower center of plate: Indomitum fraenans Genius Virtute Leonem, / Auspice picturâ, ad templum perducit honoris

Provenance

Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel, Washington D.C.; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Smyth-Ravenel Fund, Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P.

Exhibition History

2000: Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.