Joseph Werner Galatea. Pen and brown ink and pencil on tissue thin laid paper mounted on thin laid paper. 245 x 193mm; 9.625 x 7.625 inches. Indistinctly signed, dated "1700" (?) and inscribed "fecit Roma" in ink, lower center recto. Mounted on card

Joseph Werner Galatea. Pen and brown ink and pencil on tissue thin laid paper mounted on thin laid paper. 245 x 193mm; 9.625 x 7.625 inches. Indistinctly signed, dated "1700" (?) and inscribed "fecit Roma" in ink, lower center recto. Mounted on card stock with a decorative watercolor border. Werner (1637-circa 1710) trained in Frankfurt with Matthias Merian and in 1654 arrived in Rome, where he became a fashionable portrait painter and miniaturist. During the late 17th-century he is listed in Paris, where he became embattled with Charles Lebrun, then in Augsburg and Vienna. From 1696 to 1707 he served as director of the newly created Academy in Berlin. Though there is no data citing Werner in Rome during the turn-of-the-century whence the present work dates, he likely executed the drawing during his tenure in Berlin from a previously made design or from one of many available prints of the famous subject painted in the Vatican by Raphael.