Anmerckungen Der Fürtrefflichsten Mahler unserer zeit über die Zeichen-und Mahlerey-Kunst zusammen getragen, Und in Sechs Tablellen, von der Delineation, Proportion, Expression, Leicht und Schatten Ordonanz...
Medium
Illustrations: engraving
Dimensions
15 in. × 10 in. × 5/16 in. (38.1 × 25.4 × 0.8 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954
Accession Number
54.589.6
Tags
About the Artist
Henri Testelin|Johann Jacob von Sandrart · 1616–1695
Henri Testelin (1616–1695) was a French painter, art theorist, and institutional organizer whose contributions to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture proved as significant as his paintings. Born in Paris in 1616 as the son of Gilles Testelin, painter to King Louis XIII, Henri became one of the founding members of the Académie Royale in 1648 and served as its secretary from 1650, playin...