Henry de Lorraine, Fifth Duc de Guise
Balthasar Moncornet
1551 to 1600
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
plate: 16 × 11.8 cm (6 5/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.14.790
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...