Portretten van Henri met de Bles, Lucas Gassel en Hans Holbein
1764
Medium
etching
Dimensions
100; 155
About this artwork
height 155 mm x width 100 mm
Art Historical Context
This delicate etching by Dutch printmaker Jan l’Admiral captures the likenesses of three notable sixteenth-century painters: Henri met de Bles, Lucas Gassel, and Hans Holbein the Younger. Created in 1764, the small print (just 155 × 100 mm) gathers the three artists into a single composition, reflecting the eighteenth-century fascination with documenting the lives and faces of earlier masters. L’Admiral, active in Amsterdam, specialized in reproductive etchings that made celebrated images available to collectors who could not own paintings. Etching was ideally suited to such commemorative wor...
About the Artist
Jan l'Admiral · 1699–1773
Jan l'Admiral (1699–1773) was a pioneering Dutch engraver whose mastery of color mezzotint technique and collaboration with leading anatomists made him a crucial figure in both artistic printmaking and scientific illustration. Born in Amsterdam in 1699 to an engraver father of the same name, l'Admiral belonged to a family of printmakers and received training that would position him at the forefron...