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Plate 5: a cartouche with a blank escutcheon at top center, a chimera to either side, their bodies ending in scrollwork and dragon tails, from "Twelve cartouches" (Recueil de douze cartouches)
François Collignon, ca. 1640–45
- Artist
- François Collignon (French, Nancy ca. 1610–1687 Rome)
- Date
- ca. 1640–45
- Medium
- Etching; second state of four
- Size
- Sheet (Trimmed): 3 5/16 × 2 7/8 in. (8.4 × 7.3 cm)
- Type
- Prints
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Licence
- Public domain: free to use, no permission needed
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