Marie Jeanne Baptiste de Savoie-Nemours
Medium
Engraving; third state of three (Petitjean & Wickert)
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 1/4 × 10 13/16 in. (41.2 × 27.5 cm) Plate: 15 3/8 × 9 15/16 in. (39 × 25.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942
Accession Number
42.119.233
Tags
About the Artist
Robert Nanteuil|Laurent du Sour · 1623–1678
Robert Nanteuil (1623-1678) was a French portrait engraver, draughtsman, and pastellist who became the preeminent portraitist to the court of Louis XIV. His technical mastery and royal patronage fundamentally transformed the status of engraving in France, elevating it from a mechanical craft to a recognized fine art. Nanteuil stands as the outstanding French portrait engraver of the seventeenth c...