Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util

At top, a horizontal panel with a row of flowers, including begonias at right. Below, a frieze with strolling and dancing couples in landscape. At left, a seated female holds before a standing male who is seen from behind and gestures right. From a series of twelve plates with rows of flowers above friezes with landscapes, etched by Cochin, published by Balthazar Moncornet in Paris in 1645, and dedicated to the goldsmith, Jean de Leins. The prints are executed in a combination of etching, for the landscape, and burin, for the flowers.

Credit: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953