Locrian Ajax (Ajax Locrien), from: Les Images ou Tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates Sophistes grecs (...)
1614–15
Medium
Engraving and letterpress
Dimensions
sheet: 12 3/16 x 8 11/16 in. (31 x 22.1 cm) image: 9 5/16 x 7 1/2 in. (23.6 x 19.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.168
Tags
About the Artist
Thomas de Leu|Antoine Caron · 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...