Portraits of Johann Sebastian Bach

It would serve as a model for the engravings that, together with the various biographies of the members, would appear in the Musicalische Bibliothek (Musical library), the official magazine of the association.

[3] Over the years, the portrait underwent various more or less drastic restorations:[3] in 1852 it was refreshed, and, in 1879, the painter Friedrich Preller the Younger repainted it heavily.

In 1913 the Thomasschule gave it on permanent loan to the Municipal History Museum in Leipzig, where it underwent further restoration and where it still stands today.

[4] A 1748 copy of Haussmann's painting belonged to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, then passing to Johann Christian Kittel.

As to its origin, it may have been commissioned by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814), known to have been in possession of a portrait of Bach, and, after him, the painting may have passed to Georg Pölchau.