François Van der Meulen
Medium
Engraving on paper
Dimensions
Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 50.7 × 36.4 cm (20 × 14 3/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
181066
Art Historical Context
This exquisite 1687 engraving, *François Van der Meulen* and created by the Flemish artist Pierre Louis van Schuppen (162–1702), offers a window into late 17th-century portrait. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings department, the work measures 50.7 × 36.4 cm on trimmed paper, showcasing the meticulous detail achievable through intaglio printmaking. Van Schuppen, renowned for his work in Paris and Amsterdam, produced this as a reproductive portrait, capturing the subject's dignified presence with fine, cross-hatched lines incised by burin on a copper plate. Engraving w...