Artist

Potre, I

Potre, I is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

I Potre made 17th-century prints, mostly small, detailed engravings of beards and faces. Their rare surviving work, the H Beard Print Collection, shows careful linework: curled mustaches, layered collars, and the occasional hat shadow cutting across the page. These images belong to an era when portrait prints were traded like calling cards, passed hand to hand across Europe. Tap H Beard Print Collection to zoom in on the finest curls and creases the artist etched.

Works by Potre, I

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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