Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Hunting Scene in a Landscape, from Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util

Nicolas Cochin|Balthazar Moncornet

1645 · Etching and burin · Drawings and Prints

Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Hunting Scene in a Landscape, from Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util — Nicolas Cochin|Balthazar Moncornet

At top, a horizontal panel with a row of tulips. Below, a frieze with a deer hunt in a landscape, with three mounted figures riding after a deer at left. From a series of twelve plates with rows of flowers above friezes with landscapes, etched by Cochin, published by Balthazar Moncornet in Paris in 1645, and dedicated to the goldsmith, Jean de Leins. The prints are executed in a combination of etching, for the landscape, and burin, for the flowers.

Artist: Nicolas Cochin|Balthazar Moncornet
Date: 1645
Medium: Etching and burin
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953