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Scene from Ovids' metamorphosis.
hese etchings have an important place in the history of Ovidius subjects in the print art. Read more at the University of Virginia website: ovid.lib.virginia.edu/tempestabaurnew.html 

Engraver and publisher: Melchior Küsel (printmaker; German; 1626 - 1683) 
, fl. Augsburg, Vienna and Munich. Pupil of Matthäus Merian the Elder in Frankfurt.  Acquired a large part of the heritage of J.W.Baur, and between 1670 and 1681 published numerous plates after Baur,'s etchings and after his drawings (see Bonnefoit N.155 to 537). The plates of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' of 1681 where done after Baur's etched series of 1639/41. 

Design: Johann Wilhelm Baur, (Strasbourg 1607 - Vienna, 1640) 
German engraver, etcher and miniature painter. He is famous for a series of illustrations of Ovid's Metamorphoses. According to Houbraken, he learned to draw and paint from the miniaturist Frederik Brendel in Strasbourg before embarking on a Grand Tour to Rome. . In 1634 he broke off a trip to Naples to return to a woman in Rome. He died in Vienna of a sudden illness while on a commission by Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. Baur was closely influenced by Callot (Hinds History of Engraving) 

Good impression trimmed on/outside plate border and put on a laid paper collection sheet. Carefully check the images.

Etching - Not signed - 1681

Melchior Küsel (1626-1684)  - Diana discovers the pregnancy of Calisto

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