Jacques-Auguste de Thou
Balthasar Moncornet
1551 to 1600
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 15.9 x 11.3 cm (6 1/4 x 4 7/16 in.) sheet: 18.3 x 13.5 cm (7 3/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of John O'Brien
Accession Number
1991.208.72
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...