Title Plate with Two Satyr Heads, from Divers Masques

François Chauveau|Jacques Van Merlen

ca. 1635–45 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Title plate with the text on a cloth suspended from the mouths of two upturned satyr heads. From a series of nineteen plates with grotesque masks dedicated to Jean de Leins, goldsmith to the Queen of England and published by Jacques van Merlen in Paris. The plates are not numbered and appear in various orders..

Artist

François Chauveau|Jacques Van Merlen

Date

ca. 1635–45

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945