The Deluge, ca. 1630–38, Red chalk, sheet: 9 1/16 x 7 3/16 in. (23 x 18.3 cm), Drawings, Pierre Brebiette (French, Mantes-sur-Seine ca. 1598–1642 Paris), The Deluge belongs to a group of drawings that Brebiette made in the early 1630s as a commission from French poet Jacques Favereau (1590-1638) to be engraved as illustrations for a book of sonnets titled Tableaux des vertus et des vices
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Deluge, ca, 1630–38, Red chalk, sheet, 9 1/16 x 7 3/16, 23 18.3 cm, Drawings, Pierre Brebiette, French, Mantes-sur-Seine ca., 1598–1642, Paris, belongs, group, drawings, Brebiette, early 1630s, commission, French poet, Jacques, Favereau, 1590-1638, engraved, illustrations, book, sonnets titled, Tableaux, des, vertus, et, vices
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