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pre-1573, pre- 1663 (Published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

An oval plate by Delaune is placed beneath a cut-out ornamental print which acts as a frame.

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Cutting combing two separate prints. Main print: Gilles Légaré. Plate from a suite of 6 designs for jewellery. Paris, before 1663. Pasted onto the central oval of the main print: Etienne Delaune, cutting of a plate from a suite of 6 entitled Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories; a re-issue, by Delaune, of an earlier suite of the same name. French, pre-1573.
Physical description
An oval plate by Delaune is placed beneath a cut-out ornamental print which acts as a frame.
Dimensions
  • Height: 15.3cm
  • Length: 12.1cm
The central, oval plate showing Mars is 3.8cmx5cm.
Bibliographic references
  • Robert Dumesnil, Le Peintre-Graveur Français, vol. XI, (1865), 378.
  • Christophe Pollet, Les Gravures d'Etienne Delaune, (1518-1583), vol. II, (Villeneuve d'Asq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2003), 267.
  • Fuhring, P. Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II: The Seventeenth Century, 3 vols, Rotterdam, 2004, vol. 1, nos. 1777.
Collection
Accession number
12823

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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