Jean Morin

Louis XI, Roi de France

circa 1640

(after Anthonie Van Dyck) Engraving on cream laid paper, 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches (234 x 161 mm), full margins. Water stain throughout bottom, diagonal creases in the area of the bottom right corner, paper tape along top edge on recto. A very well inked impression. __________Flemish painter and engraver Paulus Pontius was born in Antwerp in 1603, and it was in this city that his full life would unfold. At the young age of 13, he was apprenticed to the still life painter Osias Beert, and subsequently to Lucas Vosterman, who was heavily associated with the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens. Vosterman trained Pontius in the skill of engraving, which he took to immediately, finding he had great skill at recreating paintings. Pontius was able to capture the minutiae of light and shadow found on the canvas, and mastered the ability to accurately render the subtleties of brushwork in this alternate media. His success as an engraver cemented his role in the workshop of Rubens, and in 1624, when Vosterman found himself at odds with Rubens, and left Antwerp for England, Pontius assumed his role as foremost engraver in the workshop. It was in this year that Pontius took up lodgings in Rubens's home, and continued to live there until 1631, when courtship and marriage (the first of three) brought him away. After the death of Rubens in 1640, Pontius embarked on a very successful career engraving reproductions of master works by artists including Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Pieter van Avont, Abraham van Diepenbeeck...

Engraving on hand made laid paper, 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (210 x 148 mm), thread margins. An approximately 1-inch vertical repaired tear extends into the image area at the top center ...

François Viète, Seigneur de la Bigotière (1540–1603), is known by mathematicians as the “Father of Algebra.”. Paris: 1861. Etching on tissue-thin Japon paper, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches (...

An exalted portrait of fellow Flemish engraver and publisher Karel van Mallery. Lucas Vorsterman the Elder (after Anthony van Dyck). Carolus de Mallery, from Icones Principum Viror...

Antique portrait titled 'Lodovicus XI (..)'. Portrait of Louis XI of France. This print originates from 'Tooneel der keyseren ende coningen van christenryck s...

The image is a hand-colored engraving titled "Louis IX," representing the 13th-century King of France, also known as Saint Louis, renowned for his Christian zeal and justice. It is p...

Antique portrait titled 'Lodovicus XII (..)'. Portrait of Louis XII of France. This print originates from 'Tooneel der keyseren ende coningen van christenryc...

Artist: Lucas van Leyden, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1494 - 1533) - Portrait de Maximilien I, Year: 1873, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 11 x 8 in. (27.94 x 20.32 cm), Printer: Ama...