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Delaune’s style was deeply influenced by the school of Fontainebleau which main motifs recur here in the figures, cherub, grotesque animals, serpents, masks intertwined in foliated arabesques. Etienne Delaune trained as a goldsmith and produced designs for prints and book illustrations but also for objects to be made either in metal or porcelain: tableware, armours, swords, jewellery, coins and medals. ","physicalDescription":"Design for a breastplate, showing a hero standing on a pedestal while being saluted by two women with a sword and a mace respectively.  The design also embodies two bound figures of captives, a heavily draped female figure, a cherub, grotesque animals, serpents, masks etc., the whole being linked by foliated arabesques.  The drawing shows the left half of the design, but is extended slightly on the right to include some variants in what would otherwise be a straightforward repetition.  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According to Bruno Thomas, Delaune’s designs for these armours were most likely executed between 1556, to celebrate the Paix de Vaucelles, and 1559, just before his death. \n\nDelaune supplied in total four projects for King Henry II’s armours: the first set is called ‘aux emblemes’ (emblems), the second set is called ‘aux serpents’ (snakes), the third set is called ‘à la tragédie de Jules César et Pompée’ (tragedy of Cesar and Pompey) and a fourth set, which includes E.5279-1958, and is called ‘à l’empereur romain’ (Roman emperor). This set includes 19 drawings. \n\nHenry II’s armour ‘à l’empereur romain’ is preserved at the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Accession number: 39.121a–n).","briefDescription":"Drawing, Design for a breastplate by Jean Cousin, French school, 1556-1559","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1957-1958 </u> London: HMSO, 1964"},{"reference":{"text":"<u>L’art de Fontainebleau</u>, Paris, 1975.","id":"AUTH323294"},"details":"Bruno Thomas, ‘Les armures de parade des Rois de France’, p. 66, fig. 10.","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"<u>Renaissance Jewellery.</u> London: 1979.","id":"AUTH323296"},"details":"p. 75, fig. 172.","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"<u>L'art pour tous</u> Aurora: Wells College Press, 1942 (Printed by Victor & Jacob Hammer).","id":"AUTH323298"},"details":"Vol.7, section 199, 30 march 1868, pl.1817.","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Thomas, Bruno:  'Die Münchner Harnischvorzeichnungen im Stil François  ler', <u>Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen  Sammlungen in Wien</u>, Vo.55 (New Series1959 - Vol.19), pp.31-74."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Thomas, Bruno:  'Neues zum Werk des  Eliseus Libaerts', Livrustkammaren', <u>Journal of the Royal Armoury Stockholm</u>, Vol.4 (1946-8), p.311."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Grancsay, S.V.:  'The armor of Henry II of  France from the Louvre Museum', <u>Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New  York</u>, New Series Vol.11 (1952), pp.68-80."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Grancsay, S.V.:  'A harness of a king of  France', <u>Bulletin of the Metropolitan  Museum of Art, New York</u>, Vol.35 (1940), pp.12- 16. 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