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Summary

Elias Gottlob Haussmann: Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

Artist

Elias Gottlob Haussmann (1695–1774)
Description	painter and portrait painter
Date of birth/death	1695	11 April 1774
Location of birth/death	Gera, Thuringia, Germany	Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Work location	Leipzig, Dresden
Authority file	: Q659736 VIAF: 66729962 ISNI: 0000000066315786 ULAN: 500020797 MusicBrainz: 4591e0eb-aa1d-4ae3-b4e7-50abeb873915 GND: 118547216

Title

Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 61) in a portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann, second version of his 1746 canvas. Bach is holding a copy of the six-part canon BWV 1076.

Depicted people

Johann Sebastian Bach

Date

1748

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 78 cm (30.7 in); width: 61 cm (24 in)

Collection

Bach-Archiv Leipzig

Accession number

XXII/48 (Museum of City History Leipzig)

Object history

bequeathed to Bach-Archiv by William H. Scheide (Princeton/New Jersey, USA)

Source/Photographer

https://www.jsbach.net/bass/elements/bach-hausmann.jpg

Other versions

Version of 1746

Licensing

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	02:05, 18 April 2025	1,376 × 1,786 (615 KB)	Zanahary	Revert unexplained revert to tiny little image. This is a much higher-quality copy.
	06:00, 13 May 2020	480 × 591 (130 KB)	Classical1215	Reverted to version as of 16:13, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
	14:35, 12 May 2020	1,376 × 1,786 (615 KB)	Meidosensei	.
	06:52, 11 May 2020	2,000 × 2,463 (360 KB)	Goszei	Larger version of same image
	16:13, 13 September 2019	480 × 591 (130 KB)	Classical1215	First, the new one is darker, and there's also some stain on it. Although the new one is bigger and not much clearer, most of the readers don't click in and check the details. As a reader just have a glance, I prefer the old one more.
	12:50, 13 September 2019	940 × 1,175 (775 KB)	Meidosensei	larger and more clear
	12:18, 17 February 2013	480 × 591 (130 KB)	Jbarta	clean spots
	18:48, 26 August 2012	480 × 591 (65 KB)	Harpsichord246	Brightened
	13:30, 3 July 2007	480 × 591 (59 KB)	Clavecin~commonswiki	{{Information \|Description= \|Source=http://www.jsbach.net/bass/composer.html \|Date= \|Author= \|Permission= \|other_versions= }} Category:Johann Sebastian Bach
	16:44, 12 October 2006	480 × 591 (59 KB)	Edgar Allan Poe	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bach-hausman.jpg {{Information \|Description= Bach, the great composer \|Source=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bach-hausman.jpg \|Date= ? \|Author= Edgar Allan Poe \|Permission= {{PD old}} \|other_