Two women with palm leaves, from a suite of ornament designs with grotesques, allegories and deities
Engraving, part of a series of six oval plates with ornament designs executed on black grounds with grotesque motifs, allegories, and divinities, designed by Étienne Delaune before 1573 (possibly during the 1550s). This print represents two womenin profile, facing each other with a knee on the ground, each holding a palm leaf on one hand, and elevating with the other hand a laurel wreath towards a trophy made up of two swords, a shield, and two olive branches. This print might be an allegory of piece, symbolized by the olive branches, as well as two doves on the upper part of the compositions, one of them holding another olive branch in its beak.
Artwork Details
- Title: Two women with palm leaves, from a suite of ornament designs with grotesques, allegories and deities
- Artist: Etienne Delaune (French, Orléans 1518/19–1583 Strasbourg)
- Date: before 1573
- Medium: Engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 4 7/16 in. (10.5 × 11.2 cm)
Plate: 3 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (8.2 × 6.4 cm) - Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
- Object Number: 49.8.8
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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