This is an original engraving by I F Klauber in 1795.  The original artist is A. Graff(1736 - 1813).  It has been museum mounted and cleaned.

This is a portrait of Johann Friedrich Bause(1738 - 1814).  He was An etcher who reproduced in copper portraits of prominent contemporaries painted by Oeser and A. Graff.  From 1766 he taught at the Kunstakademie in Leipzig.

Anton Graff was born in Switzerland and was the leading German portrait painter of the 18th century.  In 1766 he moved to Dresden to teach at their new Academy.  He recorded himself as having painted some 1,240 portraits in his career including some of his famous contemporaries such as Lessing, Herder, and Schiller.

TRANSLATED TEXT FROM FRENCH:
Bottom Left: painted by A. Graff
Bottom Right: steel-engraved by I F Klauber to Augstburg 1795
Center: beÿ J F Frarienhotz to Nuremberg

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