Vase with a River God in an Oval Medallion
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Depiction of a vase or ewer. The vase is caracterized by an abundance of motifs from the Fontainebleau School. In the center an oval medallion with a river god is placed. The handle is shaped like a satyr. The print is part of a series of 12 vases said to be designed by Rosso Fiorentino and Polidoro da Caravaggio and initially engraved and published by René Boyvin. The current series was first published by Claes Jansz. Visscher in the early seventeenth century and subsequently also by Frederik de Wit.
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