Karl Mathias Ernst
Karl Mathias Ernst is represented in this archive by a single engraving, a portrait of Rubens' mother viewed through a window opening. The print belongs to the graphic tradition of reproductive engraving, in which a burin is used to translate a painted or drawn model into precise linear hatching. Its date falls within 1775, and the sheet may survive as a later impression up to that year. The collection thus preserves one example of eighteenth-century engraving devoted to portraiture.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
