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Title of the secont part of Optique de Portraiture et peinture [...]: "La Déesee des Arts lisant avec attention le traité d'optiqe de Grégoire Huret [...]

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Title of the secont part of Optique de Portraiture et peinture [...]: "La Déesee des Arts lisant avec attention le traité d'optiqe de Grégoire Huret [...]

Grégoire Huret

17th century

Medium

Engraving

Tags

Portraits Women Reading

Dimensions

Sheet: 13 3/8 × 9 3/16 in. (34 × 23.4 cm) Plate: 13 1/8 × 8 13/16 in. (33.3 × 22.4 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Grégoire Huret

1606–1670 • France

French draftsman and printmaker. Comment on works: Engraver & draftsman

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