Unknown Artist, François Desprez, and others
Fortress Man
2000
Scroll
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
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Mar. 19 - Apr. 19, 1975.
Inscribed: None
Markings: CM: G. A. Lucas and the Maryland Institute College of Art (Lugt #1695c)
Artist
Unknown Artist
