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Equestrian Design

in or before 1656

Michel Lasne

Artist, French, 1590 or before - 1667

Medium

engraving on laid paper
Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Beres in memory of Lessing Rosenwald and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Dimensions

plate: 13 x 14.3 cm (5 1/8 x 5 5/8 in.)
page size: 29.2 x 19.1 cm (11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)
Accession

1991.103.1.c

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view. See artworks now on view

Michel de Marolles

Claude Mellan

1648

Claude de Marolles

Claude Mellan

1656

Michel de Marolles

Robert Nanteuil

1657

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Archibald Philip, Earl of Rosebery

Associated Names

Berès, Pierre, Monsieur

Exhibition History

1992

Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 23.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: MLasne; upper center in plate: Adsum in duello clarus. AEneae magni dextra cado.

Wikidata ID

Q74891120

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