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The Flight of Saint Elizabeth with the Infant Saint John

The Flight of Saint Elizabeth with the  Infant Saint John by Balthasar Moncornet

Medium

engraving

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1964.8.1290

About the Artist

Balthasar Moncornet

Balthasar Moncornet (c. 1600–1668) was a French engraver and print publisher who became one of the most prolific portrait printmakers of seventeenth-century France. Born in Rouen, he established a highly productive workshop in Paris on the Rue Saint-Jacques, the traditional center of the French print trade. Despite being blind in one eye — a remarkable handicap for an engraver — Moncornet produced...

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