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Antoine Lepautre
This image is for study only, and may not accurately represent the object’s true color or scale…
This image is for study only, and may not accurately represent the object’s true color or scale. It should not be shared or reproduced without permission by the copyright holder.

Antoine Lepautre

Primary (Rheims, France, 1623–Paris, France, 1678)
Primary (Paris, France, 1618–1682)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Datecirca 1653
MediumEngraving (by Nanteuil) and etching (by Le Pautre)
DimensionsSheet: 10 1/16 × 12 3/4 in. (25.5 × 32.4 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, purchase from the Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1997.86
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1997.86
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This unusual portrait combines etching and engraving to achieve effects characteristic of each respective technique. Nanteuil’s engraving is consistent with the design of many other portraits in the exhibition, but the typically heavy oval frame is set into the base of a column situated in an ideal, Italianate landscape. The sitter’s brother, Jean Lepautre, who is known for his imaginative inventions and decorative prints, made this etched part of the composition. Besides a ruin and anonymous figures dotting the countryside in the background, it features the architect’s tools strewn around the foreground. The portrait adorned a volume titled Les oeuvres d’architecture d’Anthoine Le Paultre, Architecte ordinare du Roy [The Architectural Works of Antoine Lepautre, Regular Architect to the King], as inscribed at the bottom of the print, which was published in Paris sometime during the mid-1650s.
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