An Aged Soldier and An Aged Lover Are Sad Sights, from "Mascarades"
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 7 11/16 × 5 3/8 in. (19.5 × 13.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2012
Accession Number
2012.136.5
Tags
MenWomen
About the Artist
Robert Boissard|Jean Jacques Boissard · 1586–1691
Robert Boissard (c. 1570–after 1630) was a French engraver and draughtsman whose work exemplifies the transition from late Renaissance to early Baroque printmaking in France. Born around 1570 in Valence, Boissard belonged to an artistic family and was a relative of the distinguished scholar and artist Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528–1602), whose monumental biographical and archaeological publications ...