1676 Emperor Nero, G.C. Eimmart 1638-1705 after Sandrart folio engraving

Fine Folio Portrait of Nero, Emperor of the Roman Empire

G.C. Eimmart 1638-1705, attributed to:

After Joh. Sandrart

Engraving

37.8 x 23.4 cm

Published 1679.

In very good overall condition.

Georg Christoph Eimmart, the younger, a German draughtsman and engraver, was born at Ratisbon. He was instructed by his father, Georg Christoph Eimmart the Elder, who was also an engraver, a painter of portraits, landscapes, still-life, and historical subjects. He studied at the University of Jena from 1654-1658.

Sometimes referred to as the “German Vasari,” Joachim von Sandrart, born in Frankfurt, trained first as a printmaker, notably in Nuremberg, and in Prague with Aegidius Sadeler. After a long and successful career in the foremost artistic circles in England, Italy, and the Netherlands, he returned to Germany and painted for Emperor Ferdinand III, for which he was ennobled in 1673. 

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68) was a Roman emperor and the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68.