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A woman in front of a classical building and a fire at right. On the wall a text that is inversed and impossible to read.
Text below (translated):The gift of devotion
The heart, so devout loves, inhabits the holy spirit, and again venus = fire protects most of all
The work is monogrammed in the bottom right corner and was published in Augsburg.
Engraver:
Johann Georg Bergmüller (1688-1762)
Painter and engraver and art-theorist; born Türkheim 1688; worked at the Pfalz court; settled in Augsburg 1713. Director of the Academy of Art in Augsburg from 1730; court painter 1739; died in Augsburg 1762.
Bibliography
Angela Boecker: 'Die Ölbilder, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik des Augsburger Akademiedirektors Johann Georg Bergmüller', Dissertation, University of Innsbruck, 1966 (157 prints by and after)
Karin Friedlmaier, 'JGB das druckgraphische Werk', Marburg 1998 66149443
