French, 16th century, male.
Born c. 1530, probably in Paris; died after 1590.
Painter, draughtsman, embroiderer.
School of Lyons.
Pierre was the son of Jacob Eskrich, a native of Freiburg-im-Brisgau and engraver who worked in Paris in the first quarter of the 16th century and whose real name seems to have been Krug ('jug' in German, hence his nickname). Pierre Eskrich must have arrived in Lyons in about ...
