Gregorius Tarrisse
Balthasar Moncornet
1551 to 1600
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 16.2 x 11.4 cm (6 3/8 x 4 1/2 in.) sheet: 30.8 x 22.9 cm (12 1/8 x 9 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of John O'Brien
Accession Number
1991.208.67
About the Artist
Balthasar Moncornet
Balthasar Moncornet (c. 1600–1668) was a French engraver and print publisher who became one of the most prolific portrait printmakers of seventeenth-century France. Born in Rouen, he established a highly productive workshop in Paris on the Rue Saint-Jacques, the traditional center of the French print trade. Despite being blind in one eye — a remarkable handicap for an engraver — Moncornet produced...