Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: Pentecost
1490 · Oil on panel
Panel: 117 × 51.1 cm (46 1/16 × 20 1/8 in.); Framed: 137.2 × 69.7 cm (54 × 27 1/2 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Germain Boffrand, French
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Germain Boffrand was a French printmaker and engraver active across six decades in the late 17th and 18th centuries. His prints, executed primarily in etching and engraving, document the architectural and decorative schemes of his era with meticulous technical precision. Boffrand's work circulated widely across Europe, establishing him as a key disseminator of French Baroque and early Rococo design through the reproductive print tradition.
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