MATHEUS, Georg

MARTHE ET MADELEINE ALLANT AU TEMPLE, after Raphael.

      Little is known about Georg Matheus who lived from approximately 1521 - Broadsheet. (8.97 x 13.10 inches). [Bartsch, 37.12; Strauss, 65]. until 1572. We do know that he was an active engraver and printer in Augsburg abou 1554. Bartsch only lists two chiaroscuro prints under his name and Walter Strauss in his catalogue of German and Netherlandish chiaroscuro woodcut arti lists three. The print is made with a black line block and an umber tone. While Matheus' style here is strictly German, a second print, Actaeon Transformed into a Stag, is a complex work built up in the Italian manner, reflecting the trade and exhange of ideas between Augsburg and the Italian ci states. While this copy is somewhat smaller than the one recorded in Bartsch it does not have the worm damage or creases shown in the reproduction of the copy from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.