Michel Lasne

1590–4 December 1667, Paris), was a French engraver, draughtsman and collector.

[1] 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.

[2] Lasne was in Paris by 1621,[3] and in 1633 he became the official engraver for King Louis XIII.

[4] There are at least 759 prints by Lasne, including 13 portraits of King Louis XIII and 10 of his wife, Anne of Austria.

[1] 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.