Master IQV
French, active 1540–50
Master IQV was a French etcher active in the 1540s, working in the printmaking tradition of the Northern Renaissance, where landscape settings frame religious and classical subjects. His small surviving output centres on etched scenes, among them Saint John and Anthony in a Landscape, Saint John and Saint Anthony and Group of Roman Figures. The three sheets held here are all etchings, made between 1542 and 1544, with impressions up to that later date reflecting how the plates continued to be printed. Together they offer a compact view of an anonymous but distinctive hand in sixteenth-century French etching.
3 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
