Portret van Eugenius Frans de Block
Monogrammist M (Duitsland)
1841 - 1842
Medium
wood engraving
Dimensions
50; 51
About this artwork
Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds
Art Historical Context
Behold the delicate "Portret van Eugenius Frans de," a miniature wood engraving by the mysterious Monogrammist M, a German artist active in the early 1840s. Created between 184 and 1842, this intimate portrait measures a mere 51mm high by 50mm wide—small enough to fit in the palm of your hand—yet it exemplifies the precision of 19th-century printmaking. Wood engraving, a technique perfected in the Romantic era, involved incising fine lines into hardwoods like boxwood to produce sharp, detailed images suitable for mass reproduction in books, periodicals, and ephemera. Monogrammist M's anonymou...