Design for Mantle Piece, from 'Cheminées et Lambris', Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682, Etching on paper, In the scheme of a couped obelisk before a wall panel. A mask and two cornucopias are shown over the frame of the opening, gaines with armless Atlantis beside it. A medallion with two portraits of women over a pedestal from which the heads of two birds emerge, caressed by putti, and garlands form the decoration of the upper portion., Europe, France, ca. 1670, Print

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