Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (French,1626-1699 ), a painter, and designer and engraver,created many prints like this work, Plate 10 fromĀ Set of Flowers in a Basket which is dated to 1680. Early flower prints were primarily used for botanical textbooks, or but by the stop of the seventeenth century,they were considered a higher artistic medium. Prints like...
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