Claude Regnauldin
Robert Nanteuil
ca. 1658
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 13/16 × 11 5/16 in. (37.7 × 28.7 cm) Plate: 13 1/16 × 9 13/16 in. (33.2 × 25 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Morris H. Saffron, 1964
Accession Number
64.633.1
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Robert Nanteuil · 1623–1678
Robert Nanteuil (1623-1678) was a French portrait engraver, draughtsman, and pastellist who became the preeminent portraitist to the court of Louis XIV. His technical mastery and royal patronage fundamentally transformed the status of engraving in France, elevating it from a mechanical craft to a recognized fine art. Nanteuil stands as the outstanding French portrait engraver of the seventeenth c...