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The Pleasures of the World Resemble a Flower, the Wind, and Moving Waves
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Etienne Delaune and Jean Delaune

The Pleasures of the World Resemble a Flower, the Wind, and Moving Waves

1579

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The Pleasures of the World Resemble a Flower, the Wind, and Moving Waves

1579

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 96 × 133 mm. (3 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.) Plate: 72 × 100 mm. (2 13/16 × 3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.1096
Elizabeth Rodini, BMA, "The City Real and Ideal," 11 October 2006 - 11 March 2007, cat. 15.
Elizabeth Rodini. "The City Real & Ideal". Brochure. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, page 8.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "SF"; in image, upper right, in plate "E" Verso: lower left in graphite "L"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Etienne Delaune

2000–2000

French, c. 1518/19-1583
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Artist

Jean Delaune

1558–2000

French, born 1559
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