Portrait of the French Magistrate Noël Le Boultz
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 15 15/16 × 12 11/16 in. (40.5 × 32.2 cm) Sheet: 16 1/2 × 13 5/16 in. (41.9 × 33.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Morrison Heckscher, 2013
Accession Number
2013.965.3
Tags
MenPortraitsCoat of Arms
About the Artist
Robert Nanteuil|Noël Le Boultz · 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...