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Abraham Bosse

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Engraving of a confectioner's shop with bakers, a brick oven, pastries on a counter, and women with a child at right.

The Confectioner

1632-35

Etching of a 17th-century interior with a clerk at a desk, visitors in period dress, and a servant with a basket of apples.

Employment Bureau

1633

Engraving of a painter at an easel in a studio, with a standing gentleman, a boy holding drawings, and framed artworks on the

The Painter

ca. 1642

Engraving of women dining at a long table in a furnished room with a fireplace, a servant, children and dogs.

Wives at Table During the Absence of their Husbands

ca. 1636

Engraving of a schoolmaster with a switch seated beside boys at work and children playing in a timber-ceilinged classroom.

The School Master

ca. 1638

Engraving of a family with hands folded in prayer at a long dinner table, with a servant at left and a garden view beyond.

The Benediction at Table

ca. 1635

Engraving of couples dancing on a village square beside a tree-sheltered horn player, with a church steeple behind.

Dance on the Village Square

ca. 1633

Engraving of two mounted figures in plumed hats before an army with banners and a walled town beyond.

The French Forces: Louis XIII and Gaston d'Orléans

ca. 1630

Engraving of elegant diners in plumed hats at a banquet table, a servant with a lantern at left, and beggars seen through a d

The Banquet of the Rich Man

mid to late 17th century

Engraving of elegant figures on an arcaded terrace with a fruit basket, a cherub, and a garden view, labeled LA TERRE.

Earth

ca. 1648

Engraved interior with a seated man, a woman beside a birdcage, a Cupid with bow, and a statue in a niche.

Air

ca. 1648

Engraving of women in a richly furnished interior, some sleeping beside a fireplace, with framed paintings on the walls.

Foolish Virgins Sleeping (Les Vierges folles sommolent en attendant l'arrivée de l'époux)

ca. 1635

Engraving of a seated man in an interior giving clothing to a ragged family approaching from the right, with verses below.

Clothing Beggars (Vêtir les nus)

Engraving of a 17th-century pastry shop with bakers at a table, an oven, hanging game, and a mother with child at right.

Pastry Shop, from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

ca. 1632-33

Engraving of a bloodletting in a wood-panelled room, a seated woman's arm held by a man while a servant and dogs look on.

The Surgeon (La Saignée), from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

1632

Engraving of elegant couples on a columned terrace, with sunbeams over a garden, country house and carriage beyond.

Summer (L'Été), from "The Four Seasons" (Les Quatre Saisons)

ca. 1637

Engraving of a cobbler's shop with hanging shoes, a woman and man at a counter, and two seated men conversing.

The Cobbler (Le Savetier), from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

ca. 1632-33

Engraving of well-dressed figures giving water to ragged beggars in a courtyard, with a fountain and classical building behin

Giving Drink to the Thirsty (Donner à boire à ceux qui ont soif), from "Les Oeuvres de miséricorde"

Engraving of a funeral procession of clergy and mourners crossing a cobbled courtyard toward an arched gateway.

Burying the Dead (Enseveliir les morts), from "Acts of Mercy" (Les Oeuvres de Miséricorde)

Engraving of a dying man in a canopied bed with a skeleton and demons, watched by a clergyman and mourning women in a room.

Death of the Rich Man (La Mort du mauvais riche)

Engraving of finely dressed visitors entering a stone prison past a jailer with keys, while ragged prisoners sit inside the c

Visiting the Prisoners (Visiter les prisonniers)

Engraving of visitors in a plain room comforting a sick man lying in a curtained bed, with a child and attendant nearby.

Visiting the Sick (Visiter les malades), from "Acts of Mercy" (Les Oeuvres de Miséricorde)

Engraving of a kneeling shoemaker fitting a shoe on a seated woman in a room with a window, framed portraits, and French vers

Shoemaker (Le Cordonnier), from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

ca. 1632-33

Engraving of a ragged young man with a staff sitting under a tree beside grazing pigs and a cow near a river.

The Prodigal Son Guarding Pigs (L'Enfant prodigue garde les cochons)

ca. 1636

Engraving of a young man seated at a table with women in an elegant interior, a dog and kitchen beyond, French verse below.

The Prodigal Son in a House of Ill Repute (L'Enfant prodigue dans une maison de débauche, version couvert)

ca. 1636

Engraving of a barber shaving a seated man in a richly furnished room with a four-poster bed and open window.

The Barber (Le Barbier), from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

ca. 1632-33

Engraving of women in 17th-century dress bringing gifts, including a copper pot, into a kitchen with a seated woman at a tabl

Presents Offered to the Bride (Les Présents offerts à la Mariée), plate 1 from "Le Mariage à la Campagne"

ca. 1633

Engraving of Fortune above clouds scattering laurels over courtiers, soldiers, and a battle scene with ships at sea.

Fortune Favoring France (La Fortune de la France)

ca. 1635-37

Engraving of a couple embracing by a fireplace while a maid draws a bed curtain, with verses below.

Touch (Le Toucher), from "The Five Senses" (Les Cinq Sens)

ca. 1638

Engraving of a bride with attendants and gentlemen in a candlelit interior with a window and wall sconce.

The Bride Taken Home (La Mariée reconduite chez elle), plate 2 from "Marriage in the City" (Le Mariage à la Ville)

1633

Engraving of men brawling beneath a grape arbor beside a table of grapes and fruit, with a dog and French verses below.

Autumn (L'Automne)

ca. 1637

Engraving of a kneeling saint in a dark habit receiving a vision of haloed figures on clouds, with a cherub and the Trinity a

Visioen van de Heilige Augustinus

1612