Les Festes du mois de Octobre (October: Saint Luke)
Léonard Gaultier
1603
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 19 × 13.1 cm (7 1/2 × 5 3/16 in.) sheet: 28.8 × 20.3 cm (11 5/16 × 8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2015.44.12
About the Artist
Léonard Gaultier · 1561–1641
Léonard Gaultier, a prolific French engraver born in Mainz around 1561, established himself as a prominent printmaker and publisher in Paris, where he died in 1641. Operating from addresses like "A l'Arche de Noé" on rue du Monceau-Saint-Gervais by 1585, he produced book illustrations, frontispieces, title pages, broadsides, almanacs, and standalone prints, often collaborating with publishers such...