Plate 10: a cartouche with the heads of two lions in profile to left and right in the center, two chimera heads to either side below with their mouths around empty escutcheons, from "Twelve cartouches" (Recueil de douze cartouches)
Artwork Details
- Title: Plate 10: a cartouche with the heads of two lions in profile to left and right in the center, two chimera heads to either side below with their mouths around empty escutcheons, from "Twelve cartouches" (Recueil de douze cartouches)
- Series/Portfolio: Twelve cartouches (Recueil de douze cartouches)
- Artist: François Collignon (French, Nancy ca. 1610–1687 Rome)
- Artist: After Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610–1664 Florence)
- Publisher: François Langlois (French, baptized Chartres, 1588–1647 Paris)
- Date: ca. 1640–45
- Medium: Etching; second state of four
- Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 3 1/8 × 2 11/16 in. (8 × 6.8 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
- Object Number: 2012.136.392.10
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Multiple artists/makers
February 25, 1649
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1643–46
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1643–46
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1643–46
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1643–46
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