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Noble Man with Fur Plastron

Noble Man with Fur Plastron, by French 17th Century, ink, 1623
Noble Man with Fur Plastron, by French 17th Century, ink, 1623

Noble Man with Fur Plastron is an ink print by the Baroque artist French 17th Century. It dates from 1623 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. This woodcut shows a very large, exaggerated man standing on a street.

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Portrait of French 17th Century

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French 17th Century

Seventeenth-century French printmakers turned ink into story. Their tools were burin and acid, paper their stage. Look at the Beggar Woman with Rosary (1622), etched on laid paper, her hands folded around faith, or The…

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