Portrait of a Cardinal
17th century
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 9 5/8 in. (29.9 × 24.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.4299
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the opulent world of 17th-century Europe with Grégoireuret's *Portrait of a Cardinal*, finely detailed engraving now housed in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Drawings and Prints. Created during the Baroque era, this print captures the dignified likeness of an unidentified male cleric, adorned with symbolic elements like a cross and coat of arms that evoke the grandeur and authority of the Catholic hierarchy. Huret, a French engraver active in Paris and Rome, was renowned his reproductive prints that brought elite portraits to a wider audience through the democratizing medium of engrav...
About the Artist
Grégoire Huret · 1606–1670
French draftsman and printmaker. Comment on works: Engraver & draftsman