
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Plate 12: a cartouche with an empty escutcheon at top center, a head of a lion in profile to either side, from "Twelve cartouches" (Recueil de douze cartouches)
Creator
François CollignonFrench printmaker (1610-1687) · 1610–1687
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- ca. 1640–45
- Medium
- Etching; second state of four
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 397490
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