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Immoderatum Dulce Amarum
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Gerard de Lairesse and Gerard Valck

Immoderatum Dulce Amarum

c. 1670-75

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Immoderatum Dulce Amarum

Gerard de Lairesse and Gerard Valck

Immoderatum Dulce Amarum

Immoderatum Dulce Amarum

c. 1670-75

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 484 x 368 mm. (19 1/16 x 14 1/2 in.) Plate: 392 x 303 mm. (15 7/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series Opus Elegantissimum
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.1402

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Bottom edge: "Per Gerardum de Lairesse invent: et Sculpt: et Per Nicolaum Visccher edit : cum Priv: Ord: Gen: Belgii Fæderati. nunc apud G: Valk" Lower left corner: "26" Below image: "Immoderatum Dulce Amarum" Beneath plate mark at left in graphite: "LB 55 / Nag 55"

Markings: WM: A plain outline greek cross within a rosary or loop chain; similar to Churchill 514

Artist

Gerard de Lairesse

Dutch, 1641 - 1711

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Publisher

Gerard Valck

Dutch, 1651/52 - 1726

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CYRUS
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