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

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

1580

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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

1580

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.)
Portfolio/Series Moral Allegories
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.1098
Elizabeth Rodini, BMA, "The City Real and Ideal," 11 October 2006 - 11 March 2007, cat. 16.

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

French, c. 1518/19-1583

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Artist

Jean Delaune

French, born 1559

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Adam and Eve Eating of the Forbidden Fruit
Stefano Scolari and Etienne Delaune
Adam and Eve Eating of the Forbidden Fruit
1640-1691
Cain Fleeing from the Wrath of God
Stefano Scolari and Etienne Delaune
Cain Fleeing from the Wrath of God
1640-1691
THE PLEASURES OF THE WORLD ARE LIKE SMOKE AND LIKE ICE TURNING INTO WATER
Etienne Delaune and Jean Delaune
The Pleasures of the World are Like Smoke and Like Ice Turning into Water
1580
SEGNITIES ET LVXVS . . . HERCULES KILLING DIOMEDES
Etienne Delaune
Segnities et Lvxvs . . . Hercules Killing Diomedes
1573
THE WORLD IS MORE INCONSTANT THAN THE SUN AND THE PLANETS (APOLLO IN HIS CHARIOT)
Etienne Delaune and Jean Delaune
The World is More Inconstant than the Sun and the Planets (Apollo in his Chariot)
1580
The Creation of Eve
Stefano Scolari and Etienne Delaune
The Creation of Eve
1640-1691
ALLEGORY SIGNIFYING THAT THERE IS NOTHING MORE CONSTANT IN THE WORLD THAN INCONSISTENCY
Etienne Delaune and Jean Delaune
Allegory Signifying That There is Nothing More Constant in the World than Inconsistency
1580
Cain Killing Abel
Stefano Scolari and Etienne Delaune
Cain Killing Abel
1640-1691
HERE IS A GOOD ONE! THE GUARD WHO HAS A DRINK... SHOULD HAVE TOLD US, WE WOULD HAVE PAID YOU A DRINK, OLD WARRIOR! THE AUTHORITY IS REFRESHING HIMSELF…. HELLO GUGUSSE…. WHOSE TURN IS IT TO FISH THE AUTHORITY OUT OF THE WATER?
Honoré Daumier
Here is a good one! The guard who has a drink... should have told us, we would have paid you a drink, old warrior! The authority is refreshing himself…. hello Gugusse…. whose turn is it to fish the authority out of the water?
1841
DA DIANA SACRIS (DIANA GIVING HER HUNTING HORN TO HERCULES)
Etienne Delaune
Da Diana Sacris (Diana Giving Her Hunting Horn to Hercules)
1573
WATERWITCH FIRE STATION, ANNAPOLIS.
Marion E. Warren
Waterwitch Fire Station, Annapolis.
1979