Artwork
Noble Man with Fur Plastron

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.
Artist & collection
Artist
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…
















