Joseph WERNER (Bern, 1637 - Bern, 1710) Minerva Watercolor... - Lot 172 - Ader

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Joseph WERNER (Bern, 1637 - Bern, 1710) Minerva Watercolor... - Lot 172 - Ader
Joseph WERNER (Bern, 1637 - Bern, 1710) Minerva Watercolor and gouache on animal vellum. Signed and dated in pen and ink in the center: "J Werner fecit.1688". 4,3 x 3,5 oval shape drawn on a vellum of 12,5 x 9,8 cm The model posing for this Minerva is most likely the same one whose profile appears in several drawings by Joseph Werner executed between 1675 and 1677 (cf. J. Glaesemer, Joseph Werner, 1637-1710, Zurich, 1974, pp. 138-140, cat. 51, 52, 53 and 55). The portrait of this woman, still unknown to this day, was wrongly used by Johann Caspar Füssli to illustrate his biography of Werner's pupil Anna Waser (1678-1714).
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