Le Cordelier de Venise, plate 4 from "The Decameron"
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Etching; proof before letter
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 9/16 × 7 3/8 in. (21.7 × 18.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.500.589(5)
About the Artist
Léopold Flameng|Giovanni Boccaccio · 1831–1911
Léopold Flameng (1831–1911) was one of the most accomplished and influential French engravers of the 19th century, whose exceptional technical mastery and artistic sensitivity made him the preeminent interpreter of paintings by old and modern masters through the medium of engraving. Born in Brussels on November 22, 1831, to French parents, and dying at Courgent, near Paris, on September 5, 1911, F...