Large portrait painting on canvas. A late 20th century copy of the famous 1748 portrait

by Elias Gottlob Haussmann by Johann Sebastian Bach

$850 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

The portrait depicts the composer at approximately 60 years of age, half-length, wearing a wig, a multi-buttoned olive green coat, vest, and white shirt; he holds a sheet of his manuscript music bearing the title Canon triplex à 6 Voc...per J. S. Bach . BWV 1076 in his right hand. 762 x 610 mm 30 x 24 ; overall size 940 x 788 mm 37 x 31 . In an attractive gold frame. The Haussmann portrait exists in two versions, one from 1746

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