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Fortress Man

Unknown Artist, François Desprez, and others

Fortress Man

2000

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Fortress Man

2000

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 143 x 109 mm. (5 5/8 x 4 5/16 in.) Plate: 124 x 94 mm. (4 7/8 x 3 11/16 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.9461
Copies after Richard Breton and François Desprez's "Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel ou sont contenues plusieurs figures de l'invention de maitre François Rabelais" (1565). Breton and Desprez were probably working after Hieronymus Cock's publication of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Seven Deadly Sins series. Fortress Man is a copy of plate 128.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art, through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Jeanneret, Michel., and Frédéric Elsig. Les Songes Drolatiques De Pantagruel. Genève: Droz, 2004.; McPhee, Constance C., and Nadine Orenstein. Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire From Leonardo to Levine. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011.; Gibson, Walter L. "Bosch's Dreams: A Response to the Art of Bosch in the Sixteenth Century", The Art Bulletin vol. 74, no 2 (Jun., 1992); 205-218.

Inscribed: None

Markings: CM: G. A. Lucas and the Maryland Institute College of Art (Lugt #1695c)

Artist

Unknown Artist

2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00

Artist

François Desprez

2000–2000

French, 16th century
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Artist

Richard Breton

1523–1570

French, 1524 - 1571
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Artist

Rodolphe Bresdin

1821–1884

French, 1822-1885
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