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Mirror Copy of Stefano della Bella's "Moorish Warrior" Print. From the "Moorish, Polish, and Hungarian Riders" Series

Johanna Sibylla Kraus (née Küsel (Küslin))

  • Mirror Copy of Stefano della Bella's "Moorish Warrior" Print. From the "Moorish, Polish, and Hungarian Riders" Series
Basic information
ID
Г-IV-979
Author
Johanna Sibylla Kraus (née Küsel (Küslin))
Name
Mirror Copy of Stefano della Bella's "Moorish Warrior" Print. From the "Moorish, Polish, and Hungarian Riders" Series
Country
Germany
Technique
etching
Material
paper
Dimensions
18.7 x 18.3 cm (height x width)
Additionally
Type
graphic art
Genre
battle painting
Provenance
Received from the Lviv Historical Museum, 1954
Information about author
Author
Johanna Sibylla Kraus (née Küsel (Küslin))
Artist's lifetime
1650–1717
Country
Germany
Biography
Johanna Sibylla Kraus (née Küsel (Küslin)), 1650–1717) was a prominent German printmaker and graphic artist. Born in Augsburg, she trained under her father, Melchior Küsel. She frequently worked alongside family members and her husband, Johann Ulrich Kraus, or published her works through their family workshop. She created series of engravings and etchings that reproduced or were inspired by the works of the Italian printmaker Stefano della Bella (1610–1664).
Object description
In the centre of the composition, an exotic lightly armed warrior-rider is depicted, sitting majestically upon a horse that moves at a wide stride. The figure of the warrior is turned in profile to the left. He is dressed in luxurious attire, a quiver with arrows and a bow are visible behind his back, and he holds a light spear in his hand. On the warrior's head is a splendid headdress adorned with ostrich feathers. In the background, the artist recreates a semi-fictional North African landscape. In the right part of the composition, immediately behind the horse, rises a monumental pyramid, at the foot of which stand people wearing turbans. On the left in the far distance, which fades into the horizon, a caravan is drawn in detail, including a laden elephant. In the upper part of the composition, a cloudy sky is outlined with blurred hatching.
The work is a mirror copy of the print by Stefano della Bella (inventory No. Г-IV-971).
Inscriptions
Beneath the image on the bottom left of the sheet, the artist's signature is engraved: "Johana Sibіla Küslin fecit, Aug: Vind: Aº 1672" – [Johanna Sibylla Küslin made this, in Augsburg (Lat. Augusta Vindelicorum), in the year 1672]. Pencil marks on the backing cardboard indicate the gallery inventory number "Г-IV-979" and the number "54".
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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