Word: nanteuil
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...collection of prints from the engraved work of Robert Nanteuil (1623-1678), lent by Francis Bullard '86, of Boston, is now on view in the Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum. The Museum's own collection of works by Nanteuil is large, and of good average quality, but Mr. Bullard's collection contains a greater number of prints of rare excellence. In fact, two-thirds of this series consists of either first states or the only states of the plates represented. Nanteuil was the greatest master of pure line engraving of his age, and no such engraving...
...Fogg Museum a collection of over 200 seventeenth century portrait engravings. The prints show the development during this period and the character of the work of its masters, including, from the Low Countries, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Vorsterman, and Paul Pontius; and from the French school, Jean Morin, Mellan, Nanteuil, Edelinck, and Drevet...