"Allegory of Music". Oil on canvas, not signed, relined and on newer stretchers, measuring approx. 20-3/4" x 29". Copies of the authentication papers accompany the lot done for an earlier owner by Dr. Claus Grimm, dated April 14, 1985.
Active in Prague and Franconia. He was a pupil of his father, Johann Joseph Byss, in Solothurn. In the 1680s he made a study trip to Germany, England and the Netherlands. From 1689 he was employed by Count Hermann Jakob Cern'n (d 1710) in Prague as court painter and administrator of the Count's picture gallery, and that year he also married Maximiliana Wagner, the daughter of one of the Emperor's clerks. Byss introduced to Prague many of the stylistic tendencies of Netherlandish and Italian classicism.
7,000/9,000
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