Diverses Pieces de Serruriers, page 4 (recto)

Hugues Brisville|Jean Berain|Gabriel Ladame

ca. 1663 · Engraving · Drawings and Prints

Engravings by Jean I Berain, French, Saint-Mihiel 1640-1711 Paris and Gabriel Ladame, French, active 1645-68. Designs published by Francois Langlois after Hughes Brisville, French, born ca. 1633, active Paris 1663. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design is in the shape of a rectangle and is decorated with a series of coiling vines of acanthus leaves and flowers. Toward the bottom center of the design, a composite nude man and plant figure screams in horror at the dragon that is about to bite his knee. Also included among the foliage are a grotesque head and a snail.

Artist

Hugues Brisville|Jean Berain|Gabriel Ladame

Date

ca. 1663

Medium

Engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014