Venus op schelp met brandend hart en pijl drijft voor kust van Zeeland, daarboven twee medaillons met portretten van Cloës en Blondae en cartouche met titel vastgehouden door Amor
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Public domain photo of portrait art print, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
A cartouche or cartouch is an oval design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low relief design. In Early Modern design, since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian cartoccia. Such cartouches are characteristically stretched, pierced and scrolling (illustration, left). Another cartouche figures prominently in the title page of Giorgio Vasari's Lives, framing a minor vignette with a device of pierced and scrolling papery cartoccia.
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Date
1641
Source
Rijksmuseum
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Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")