Fine Mezzotint Portrait Engraving By Johann Jakob Haid (1704-1767) After The Painting By Johann Solomon Wahl (1689-1763) Mattheson, Johann 1681-1764 Art & Photographs,New Arrivals

Folio (311 x 190 mm). Slightly worn and creased; one minor spot of foxing; two small black and two small brown stains; minor tear to lower outer margin repaired, not affecting image; trimmed to within platemark; laid down to mounting paper. Kinsky p. 252. Mattheson, composer, theorist, and close friend of Handel, "was the most important contemporary writer on the music of the German Baroque." George J. Buelow in Grove Music Online. His circle included Telemann, and he "praised the famous organist at Weimar Herr John. Sebastian Bach in his treatise Das beschützte Orchestre." Bach & Friends: Bach's Life in 82 Engraved Portraits, pp. 22-23, where the present portrait is also reproduced. An attractive portrait by a noted contemporary engraver after a painting Wahl, an important German artist who became a court painter in Denmark.