Wolf hunt, Étienne Delaune, second half 16th century

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Wolf hunt, second half 16th century, Pen and black, dark gray, and gray brown ink, and (between the pen lines of the illusionistic frame) brush and gray ink, on vellum., 2 3/4 x 8 11/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Étienne Delaune (French, Orléans 1518/19–1583 Strasbourg), This drawing is a preparatory study by Etienne Delaune for one of a series of six engravings, also by him, representing various hunt scenes. The very same scene is carved on one side of a heron-shaped rock crystal bowl, manufactured in Florence to commemorate the wedding of Grand Duke Ferdinand in 1589

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