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Classizing Landscape with Three Figures, from a series of architectural ruins with figures, in reverse after prints by Jacques Androuet Ducerceau after Léonard Thiry

Virgil Solis German
After Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau French
After Leonard Thiry Netherlandish

ca. 1550–62

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Classizing Landscape with Three Figures, from a series of architectural ruins with figures, in reverse after prints by Jacques Androuet Ducerceau after Léonard Thiry, Virgil Solis (German, (?) 1514–1562 Nuremberg), Etching — This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Title: Classizing Landscape with Three Figures, from a series of architectural ruins with figures, in reverse after prints by Jacques Androuet Ducerceau after Léonard Thiry

Series/Portfolio: Series of architectural ruins with figures, in reverse after prints by Jacques Androuet Ducerceau after Léonard Thiry

Artist: Virgil Solis (German, (?) 1514–1562 Nuremberg)

Artist: After Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau (French, Paris 1510/12–1585 Annecy)

Artist: After Leonard Thiry (Netherlandish, active Fontainebleau ca. 1536–1550)

Date: ca. 1550–62

Medium: Etching

Dimensions: sheet: 6 x 4 in. (15.2 x 10.2 cm)

Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture

Credit Line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Accession Number: 2012.136.720

Chronology

Central Europe (including Germany), 1400-1600 A.D.

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