D'Ayrail
Thomas de Leu
1589
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 11.6 × 6.4 cm (4 9/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.14.344
About the Artist
Thomas de Leu · 1560–1620
Thomas de Leu (c. 1560–c. 1612) was a Flemish-born engraver and print publisher who became one of the most prolific and celebrated portrait engravers working in France during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Born in Oudenaarde in the Low Countries, the son of a print dealer, he began his professional life in Antwerp before making his way to Paris, where he worked in the workshop...