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It is Easier to Combine Water and Fire than to Guard One’s Safety by Abandonment to the World

Etienne Delaune and Jean Delaune

It is Easier to Combine Water and Fire than to Guard One’s Safety by Abandonment to the World

1579

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It is Easier to Combine Water and Fire than to Guard One’s Safety by Abandonment to the World

Etienne Delaune and Jean Delaune

It is Easier to Combine Water and Fire than to Guard One’s Safety by Abandonment to the World

It is Easier to Combine Water and Fire than to Guard One’s Safety by Abandonment to the World

1579

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 94 x 131 mm. (3 11/16 x 5 3/16 in.) Plate: 71 x 101 mm. (2 13/16 x 4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.1098
The City Real and Ideal

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "SF"; in image, upper right, in plate "G" Verso: lower left in graphite "L"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Etienne Delaune

2000–2000

French, c. 1518/19-1583
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Artist

Jean Delaune

1558–2000

French, born 1559
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Cain Killing Abel
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1978
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Da Diana Sacris (Diana Giving Her Hunting Horn to Hercules)
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