Portret van Jean de Gerson
Étienne Desrochers
c. 1726
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
146; 103
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228
Art Historical Context
**Portret van Jean deerson** *Étienne Desrochers,. 1726* *Engraving, 146 × 103 mmStep into the refined world of 18th portraiture with Étienne Desrochers' engraving of Jean de Gerson, the influential French theologian and Chancellor of the University of Paris1363–1429). Created around 1726, this work revives the likeness of a key figure from the late medieval era, known for his writings on church reform during the Western Schism. Desrochers, a masterful French engraver active in Paris, specialized in precise reproductive prints that captured the intellectual elite, making historical luminar...