Matthäus MerianSwiss, German, 1593–1650Bratislava
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Slovak National Gallery
Bratislava, Slovakia
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
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- The museum's own collection data
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- Image: Slovak National Gallery — Public Domain Mark 1.0
Meanwhile, in the life of Matthäus Merian
The whole life1645
His wife Maria Magdalena de Bry dies
Maria Magdalena de Bry, Merian’s wife since 1617, dies.
1646
Marries Johanna Sibylla Heim
A year after his first wife’s death he marries Johanna Sibylla Heim.
1647
Birth of his daughter Anna Maria Sibylla
His daughter Anna Maria Sibylla is born, later a pioneering naturalist and illustrator; she will take up the tradition of natural-history illustration to which Merian’s own engravings for John Jonston’s encyclopaedic work on natural history belong.
2 April 1647
Daughter born: Maria Sibylla Merian
19 June 1650
Death in Langenschwalbach
After several years of illness he dies in Langenschwalbach, near Wiesbaden, leaving his widow with two small children: his daughter Anna Maria Sibylla (born 1647) and a son, Maximilian, who died before his third birthday.
