Portrait of Nicolas Chrystin
17th century
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Image: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.47
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the elegant world of17th-century portraiture *Portrait of Nicolas Chryst*, a striking etching and engraving by Jean Morin after Anthony van Dy. Van Dyck, the Flemish Baroque master and protégé of Rubens, revolutionized portrait painting with his graceful compositions, sumptuous fabrics, and penetrating characterizations of Europe's nobility and merchants. This print faithfully reproduces one such likeness, capturing the subject's dignified poise against a restrained background. Etching and engraving were pivotal printmaking techniques of the era, blending Morin's precise line work w...
About the Artist
Jean Morin|Anthony van Dyck · 1605–1650
Jean Morin (c. 1605–1650) was one of the most accomplished French engravers of the seventeenth century, a master of the portrait print whose work stands among the finest examples of French graphic art in its era. Little is known about his early life or training, though his technique suggests exposure to both French and Flemish engraving traditions, the latter being the dominant force in European p...