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

Fine Folio Portrait of Claudius, Emperor of the Roman Empire

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

After Joh. Sandrart

Engraving

37.8 x 22.7 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. 

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicu (1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54), or Claudius, was a Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Drusus and Antonia Minor at Lugdunum in Roman Gaul, where his father was stationed as a military legate. He was the first Roman emperor to be born outside Italy.