B-31

Type:

Bach Painting

Title:

Lithograph by Maurin, c1822

Description:

Inscribed: „Maurin aîné. / Lith. de Langlumé, rue de L'Abbaye, No 4./“ Idealized representation deriving from B-02 and B-13; further used as frontispiece for the first edition of the St John Passion (BWV 245), published by T. Trautwein, Berlin, 1831, but here bearing the inscription “Lith. Inst. von L. Sachse & Co / Hauer inc.“.

Measures:

29 x 25.5 cm

Creator:

Lithographer: Probably Antoine Maurin (1793- 1860), the Paris portraitist and lithographer.
Year: c1822.

History:

Current Location:

Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, music department

Photograph by:

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Source/Links: Bach-Dokumente IV (1979)
Contributor: Thomas Braatz (December 2007)