An extensive rocky landscape with Martha overcoming the Dragon, Lazarus washing his feet in a stream in the foreground

Three drawings by this Swiss artist are in the Louvre, Paris, L. Demonts, Inventaire gnral des Dessins des Ecoles du Nord, Ecoles Allemande et Suisse, Paris, 1938, II, nos. 733-5. Two further bodycolours were with Galerie Talabardon and exhibited at the Salon du dessin, 1999.
After having worked in Rome, where he met Cortona, Sacchi and Maratta, Werner was called to France in 1662 by King Louis XIV. In 1667, the year the present drawing was executed, Werner married in Augsburg. Afterwards he worked in Munich, Berlin and Berne.