Michel Lasne (Caen, ca. 1590–4 December 1667, Paris), was a French engraver, draughtsman and collector.
Lasne was born in Caen and was the son of a goldsmith. He was a member of the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp for 1617–18, and probably worked under the direction of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck. At that time he made an engraving of Rubens's now-lost Susanna and the Elders, which contains a dedication from Rubens to the Dutch humanist Anna Roemers Visscher. Lasne was in Paris by 1621, and in 1633 he became the official engraver for King Louis XIII. In France, Lasne engraved a number of portraits. There are at least 759 prints by Lasne, including 13 portraits of King Louis XIII and 10 of his wife, Anne of Austria. He made reproductive engravings after the French painters Philippe de Champaigne, Daniel Dumonstier, Simon Vouet, and Charles Le Brun; the Italian painters Paolo Veronese, Francesco Albani, and Titian; and the Spanish painter Jusepe de Ribera.
References
- ^ Meyer, Veronique (2003). "Lasne, Michel". Oxford Art Online. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T049446. ISBN 978-1-884446-05-4. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - Hottle, Andrew D. (2004). "Commerce and Connections: Peter Paul Rubens and the Dedicated Print". Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek. 55: 54–85. doi:10.1163/22145966-90000105.
- d'Hulst, R.-A.; Vandenven, M. (1989). Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard: Part 3, The Old Testament. London: Harvey Miller Publishers. pp. 170–177.
- Hind, Arthur M. (1963). A History of Engraving & Etching: From the 15th Century to the Year 1914. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. p. 142.
External links
Media related to Michel Lasne at Wikimedia Commons
