Artworks · Etienne Delaune, French

Design for Ornament: Two Seated Women

1580 · ornament, print — engraving on off-white laid paper

6.4 x 4.4 cm (2 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Jupiter, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (Grotesques on Black Ground, Divinities and Allegories)

1575 · ornament, print — engraving on off-white laid paper

Platemark: 6.5 × 8.3 cm (2 9/16 × 3 1/4 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Juno, from the series Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (Grotesques on Black Ground, Divinities and Allegories)

1575 · ornament, print — engraving on off-white laid paper

Platemark: 7.8 × 5.7 cm (3 1/16 × 2 1/4 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Combats and Triumphs

1560 · engraving

Image: 6.5 x 21.9 cm (2 9/16 x 8 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 7 x 22.5 cm (2 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

François II, King of France, King Consort of Scotland

1559 · Bronze

Diam. 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wolf hunt

1550 · 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. (7.0 x 22.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Combats and Triumphs

1550 · engraving

Image: 6.6 x 21.9 cm (2 5/8 x 8 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 7.1 x 22.3 cm (2 13/16 x 8 3/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Prudence

1545 · Chalcedony, mounted in gold with enamel, rubies, emeralds, diamond, and pearl

Overall, with pendant pearl, without bail: 3 3/16 x 1 7/8 in. (8.2 x 4.8 cm); Overall, central commesso (confirmed): 1 9/16 x 1 7/16 in. (4 x 3.6 cm); 40 x 34.7 mm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pair of Wheellock Pistols

1545 · Steel, gold, silver, brass, wood (walnut), staghorn, pigment

L. of each pistol 20 1/8 in. (51.1 cm); Cal. of 14.25.1433a .444 in (11.2 mm); Cal. of 14.25.1433b .463 in. (11.3 mm); L. of each barrel 12 in. (30.5 cm); L. of plug 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm); Diam. at muzzle 3/4 in. (19.1 mm); Diam. at breech 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm); L. of lock 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm); Wt. of 14.25.1433a 4 lb. 2 oz. (1871 g); Wt. of 14.25.1433b 4 lb. (1814 g)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pair of Wheellock Pistols with Matching Priming Flask/Spanner

1545 · Steel, gold, silver, brass, wood (walnut), staghorn, brass wire, pigment

Cal. of each pistol, .44 in (11.18 mm); Wt. of 14.25.1433a: 4 lb. 2 oz. (1871 g); Wt. of 14.25.1433b: 4 lb. (1814 g); L. of each pistol, 20 1/8 in. (51.1 cm); L. of priming flask/spanner, 5 7/8 in. (14.91 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plate from "Combats et Triomphes"

1540 · Engraving, probably first state of four

Sheet: 2 11/16 × 8 11/16 in. (6.9 × 22 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art