Plate from "Le Livre de toutes sortes de fleurs d'après nature"

MEDIUMEngraving on paper

LOCATIONCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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THE ARTIST

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, a Franco-Flemish painter, brought vibrant floral still lifes to life, even creating designs for Gobelins tapestries.