A painter, engraver and publisher, particularly of portraits, trained in Augsburg. Haid also worked in England for some time. Haid made his mezzotint version in portrait format, in reverse, after either the original painting, known as The Concert, in the French royal collection, which is landscape in format, or after the line engraving , by Etienne Picart, for Tableaux du Roi, published 1677, when the painting was thought to be by Domenico Zampieri – Il Domenichino. The painting, in the Louvre, is now attributed to the Bolognese artist Leonello Spada (1576-1622).

Haid has lettered the mezzotint with the first verse of an ode by Horace (Ode 4, Book III), which translates as: “Descend from heaven and come, speak with pipe, a long melody, queen Calliope, now, if you prefer, with a keen voice, or with the strings and lyre of Phoebus.

Mezzotint after ‘Domenichino’ (sic) / Spada. On laid paper. A tiny unobtrusive hole and trace of a diagonal fold line.