Marie Leszczynska of Poland, Queen of France
Medium
engraving and etching
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Hermann Wunderlich
Accession Number
1951.3.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Laurent Cars after Carle Van Loo
Laurent Cars (1699–1771) was a prominent French engraver born in Lyon on May 28, 1699, to Jean-François Cars, an engraver who relocated the family to Paris when Laurent was still young. There he quickly distinguished himself in the competitive Parisian art scene. Cars was admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1733 as an engraver, submitting portraits of sculptors Michel An...