Portrait of Charles de la Porte Duc de la Melleraye
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 1/4 × 10 11/16 in. (38.8 × 27.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Richard Barsam, in memory of Edgar Munhall, 2018
Accession Number
2018.590.2
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Robert Nanteuil|Justus van Egmont · 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...