according to Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688), Picture, approx. 49 x 62 cm, 50 colours, 9 stitches/1 cm, Gobelin with petit-point-section
Sandrart was probably the most famous painter of the 17th century. After years of apprenticeship in Nuremberg he went via Prague to Utrecht and became a pupil of van Honthorst, whom he also accompanied to England in 1627. He lived in Italy for several years, mainly in Rome, and had contact with the great artists of painting who lived there. In 1635 he returned to Frankfurt, but due to the Thirty Years War he moved on to Amsterdam in 1637. There he became a sought-after portrait painter and made connections with the great and famous Dutch painters, poets and scholars. In 1674 he became director of the newly founded Academy of Art in Nuremberg. In 1675 his great work "Teutsche Academie der Edle Bau-, Bild- und Malereykünste" was published. The painting "Der Jäger (November)" was painted between 1637 and 1644, during which time he created a twelve-month allegory for the great hall of Schleißheim Palace on behalf of Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria.
