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Abraham Bosse

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Courtly ball in a decorated hall with elegantly dressed couples, feathered hats, and musicians playing lute and violin.

The Ball

1633

Four framed engravings of the seasons showing elegant figures in courtly interiors and gardens with French verses below.

The Four Seasons

1635

Engraving of a seated couple with a cherub and fruit basket on a terrace overlooking a formal garden with a fountain.

The Four Seasons: Springtime

1635

Engraving of elegant couples on a columned terrace with a dog, sunbeams and a garden landscape beyond.

The Four Seasons: Summer

1635

Etching of revelers in a vine arbor, one man waving a sword beside a table of grapes and fruit, with a dog and verse below.

The Four Seasons: Autumn

1635

Engraved interior of women and children cooking by a fireplace, with a set dining table and canopy bed beyond.

The Four Seasons: Winter

1635

Engraved plate of a walled harbor city with many ships and a dike, framed by ornate scrollwork, with a siege machine at right

The Siege of La Rochelle: Plate 16

1628-1630

Engraved domestic scene of a man in a wide hat dining with a woman and children at a table, with a small dog and a canopy bed

Manhood

1636

Engraved interior with two seated men by a fireplace, a woman standing beside them, and a skeleton in a niche above the heart

Death

1636

Engraving of a young couple with a cupid beside a fountain and classical arch, with a formal garden and French verse below.

Adolescence

1636

Engraving of children playing in a grand interior with arched windows, a canopy bed, and marbles on the floor.

Childhood

1636

Engraving of costumed theatre performers in an interior, with a masked figure, a woman in a dark gown, and printed verses.

The Royal Troupe

1635

Engraving of a barber trimming a seated man's mustache in an interior with a canopied bed and window.

Barber trimming a man's mustache

1632

Etching of revelers feasting under a grape arbor, one drawing a sword, with a dog and overturned bottles, labeled L'Autone.

The Four Seasons: Autumn

1637

Engraving of an allegorical scene with a pope, a king, Religion and figures labelled Jansenists in distress, in an interior h

Retreat of the Jansenists

1654

Engraved view of a long hospital infirmary with curtained beds, monks and visitors at a table, and a child with a broom.

Ziekenzaal in het Hôpital de la Charité de Paris

1642

Engraving of a noble painter at an easel painting a portrait, with a standing man, a boy and a crowded studio interior.

The Noble Painter

1642

Engraving of a lavish banquet with guests at a long table, a servant with a dish, columns and a garden view beyond.

Feast in Honor of the Prodigal Son

Engraving by Abraham Bosse of figures in a window-lit room, a man writing at a table while a couple and children look on.

Tekenen van het huwelijkscontract

1633

Engraving of women in an elegant bedchamber gathered around a canopy bed, with a servant carrying a tray and a dog nearby.

Terugkeer van de doop

1632

Engraving of women visiting a woman in a canopied bed, with girls and a dog on the tiled floor beside a fireplace.

Vrouwen op kraambezoek

1634

Engraving of a bride led by attendant women toward a curtained bed, with a bridegroom gesturing in a candlelit room.

Bruid wordt naar het huwelijksbed geleid

1633

Engraved interior with women and a child by a fireplace, a canopied bed, a dog, and a French verse caption below.

Interieur met een min met baby, een moeder en dienstmeid rond een haard

1633

Engraving of women bringing gifts including a copper pot to a seated woman in a kitchen, with a child and curtained bed at le

Vrouwen brengen geschenken naar de bruid

1632

Engraving of foolish virgins dozing by a fireplace in a tapestried room, with tipped lamps and French verses below.

The Wise and Foolish Virgins, plate five

1635

Engraving of children playing in an arched interior with a canopied bed, framed paintings, and a garden view beyond.

Childhood: Depicting the Four Ages of Man

1636

Engraving of a young couple by a fountain with a cupid, a formal garden behind them, and French verse below.

Youth, from The Four Ages of Man

n.d.

Engraving of a group dining at a draped table in a room with a canopy bed, a dog at left, and French verse below.

Manhood, plate three from The Four Ages of Man

1636

Etching of an elderly man by a fireplace with companions, a skeleton inside a clock case, and French verse below.

Old Age, plate four from Depicting the Four Ages of Man

1636

Engraved frontispiece with French text in a scrolled cartouche, a winged cherub head at top, and crosses in the corners.

Frontispiece for Callot's "The New Testament"

1635

Engraving of five seated women in a candlelit interior by a fireplace, one reading, with oil lamps on a table.

Les Vierges sages, Nul vain objet...

Engraving of two craftsmen working in a studio with framed prints on the walls and a standing figure in the background.

Graveurs en taille douce au burin et à l'eau forte (Copper Plate Engravers and Etchers)

1643

Engraving of five seated women around a table with an open book and cross in a tapestry-lined room, with French verse below.

Plate One, from The Wise and Foolish Virgins, plate One

1635

Engraving of three men in feathered hats near a vine-covered doorway, with a broom, a dog, a rabbit, and a village in the dis

Wekken van het nieuwe echtpaar

1632

Engraving of a village festival with a horn player under a tree, dancing couples in 17th-century dress, and a church tower be

Dorpsfeest op een plein met bruiloftsdans

1632

Engraving of a man with a stick over a kneeling woman in a room, with a child and kneeling young man beside her.

Man zijn vrouw slaand met een stok

1630

Engraving of a woman raising keys over a kneeling man in a room with a fireplace, a rooster and hen fighting nearby.

Vrouw haar man slaand met een sleutelbos

1630

Engraving of a painter seated at an easel with a portrait, flanked by a standing gentleman and a boy holding a panel, in a st

Schilder in zijn atelier

1642

Engraving of a sculptor's studio with a nude statue, shelves of busts, and three visitors in 17th-century dress in conversati

Beeldhouwer in zijn atelier

1642

Engraving of three men printing copperplates in a workshop with a press, hanging prints, and a French caption below.

Graveur in zijn werkplaats

1643

Engraving of a 17th-century print workshop with workers operating an intaglio press and prints hanging on the walls.

Prentdrukkerij

1642

Engraving of a 17th-century schoolroom with a seated schoolmaster holding a rod and pupils working at tables under a beamed c

Schoolmeester in een klaslokaal

1638

Engraving of a schoolmistress teaching young girls in a timber-ceilinged room, with a dog and a window at right.

Onderwijzeres in een klaslokaal

1638

Engraving of a bloodletting scene in an interior, with a man attending a seated woman, servants, dogs, and framed portraits o

Chirurg voert een aderlating uit bij een vrouw

1632

Etching of a man with a large syringe beside a woman in a canopied bed, with a gowned woman and a servant in the room.

Apotheker met klisteerspuit bij een vrouw op bed

1636

Engraving of a 17th-century shop interior with a shopkeeper at a counter, customers, a boy with a fruit basket, and hanging s

Procureur in zijn kantoor

1633

Engraved interior with a kneeling cobbler fitting a shoe on a seated woman, a couple at a table, and French verse below.

Schoenmaker past een vrouw een schoen

1632

Drawing of musical instruments and two cherubs playing lute and viola da gamba beside an open songbook, with the words Sous D

Sous Dorien

1660

Engraving of an elderly schoolmistress teaching young girls in a timber-ceilinged room with a window and a small dog.

La Maestresse d'escole / la maîtresse d'école

1633

Engraving of a childbirth scene with a midwife, attending women, a standing man, and a woman in bed before a fireplace.

L' Accouchement

1633

Pen and wash drawing of cherubs with a lyre and lute in a draped room, with a couple embracing at right.

Mode Myxolydien

1660

Pen and grey wash drawing of winged putti beside a column with a lyre-playing figure, surrounded by musical instruments and a

Sous Phrygien

1660

Pen and wash drawing of a winged putto playing a stringed instrument among cherubs, lutes, lyre and panpipes in a classical s

Sous Lydien

1660

Pen drawing of a coat of arms between two eagles on a pedestal, with a lute before a starred drapery and a French inscription

Das Chambrésche Wappen zwischen Adlern in einem Sockel, auf dem eine bekränzte Laute vor einem sternenbesäten Vorhang…

1660

Pencil drawing of a seated helmeted putto with a raised sword, flanked by two anchors on a star-patterned carpet.

Sitzender behelmter Putto zwischen zwei Ankern auf einem sternenbestickten Teppich

1660

Engraving of three men printing intaglio plates in a workshop with a press, framed prints on the wall, and French caption tex

The Intaglio Printers

1642

Engraved interior of a dining room with seated men, a woman in a long dress, a servant, a dog, and a table of food.

The Prodigal Son: Riotous Living

1635

Engraved view of a long hospital infirmary with patients in curtained beds, monks serving food, and visitors at a central tab

L'Infirmerie de l'hospital de la Charite de Paris

1641

Engraved interior of a formal 1645 marriage contract ceremony with nobles, clergy and chandeliers at Fontainebleau.

Ceremony of the Contract of Marriage between Vladislas IV, King of Poland, and LouiseMarie of Gonzaga, Princess of Ma…

1645

Engraving of a formal procession of nobles and soldiers with drummers crossing an arcaded courtyard at Fontainebleau.

March of the King and Knights of the Holy Spirit in the Courtyard at Fontainebleau

1633

Engraving of a formal assembly in a decorated hall, with seated dignitaries before a dais and crowded galleries above.

Meeting in the Chapel at Fontainebleau

1633

Engraving of a long banquet hall with plumed guests at tables, attendants in the aisle, and a canopied royal table at the end

Banquet Given by the King to the New Knights

1633

Engraving of two plumed horsemen in the foreground with ranks of troops and a walled town behind them.

Lodewijk XIII en Gaston Jean Baptiste, hertog van Orléans te paard met op achtergrond de troepen in gelid

1635

Engraving of Pope Urban VIII on a throne with kneeling clergy in dark robes presenting books, with cherubs and a Latin banner

Paus Urbanus VIII zegent knielende geestelijken voor hem

1636

Engraved print of a man in armor holding a club, with a lion, rooster, shields, and a battle scene behind him.

Portret van Lodewijk XIII als Hercules

1635

Engraving of fashionable shoppers browsing fans, books and lace in a 17th-century shop gallery, with two dogs in the foregrou

Galerie du Palais

1637

Engraving of costumed actors on a stage with arched backdrop, two onlookers in side pillars, and French verses below.

Drie acteurs in het theater van l'Hôtel de Bourgogne

1634

Engraving of a shoemaker and wife at a counter, shoes hanging overhead, with three men seated drinking in the foreground.

Schoenmaker en zijn vrouw in de winkel

1632

Engraving of a barber trimming a seated man's moustache in a room with a bed, window, and framed painting.

Barbier werkt de snor van een man bij

1632

Engraving of a pastry shop with bakers, a brick oven, pies on a table, and a woman with a child on the right.

Banketbakkerij

1635

Engraving of a family praying at a long dining table, with a garden and commandment tablet in the background.

Familie aan tafel tijdens het tafelgebed

1635

Engraved interior of women dining at a long table with a servant, a fireplace, a canopy bed and two dogs.

Dinerende vrouwen aan een tafel

1636

Etching of a woman receiving a letter from a young man with a dog, while another woman watches in an interior.

Vrouw overhandigt een liefdesbrief aan een bode

1635

Engraved print in a grid of 24 small scenes of a king, courtiers and servants, each paired with a verse panel.

Vierentwintig afbeeldingen van een koning en zijn hofhouding met tekst

1629

Engraving of four musicians playing lute and cello around a table in a room with open windows, sheet music scattered on the t

Hearing

ca. 1638

Engraving of a seated woman and attendant in an interior, with a man aiming a rifle from a window at right.

Sight

1635-38

Engraving of a couple on a terrace smelling flowers, with a formal garden and dogs beside a stone balustrade.

Smell

ca. 1638

Engraving of a fashionable dinner scene with seated diners, a servant with a platter, a dog, and a tapestry behind.

Taste

1635-38

Engraving of a seated couple embracing by a fireplace while a servant draws a bed curtain in a richly furnished room.

Touch

1635-38

Engraving of a schoolmaster with a birch rod supervising boys at desks while girls play with marbles in a timber-beamed room.

The School Master

ca. 1635-38

Engraving of a surgeon bandaging a seated woman's arm in a richly furnished room, with a servant holding a basin and dogs on

The Surgeon

1632

Engraving of a seated woman having her shoe fitted by a kneeling shoemaker, with a couple at a table and French verses below.

The Shoemaker

1632-33

Etching of a barber shaving a seated man in a richly furnished bedroom with a canopy bed, window, and French verses below.

The Barber

1632-33

Engraving of a schoolmistress teaching young girls in a furnished room with a window, a dog, and a sweeping servant.

The School Mistress

ca. 1638

Pen drawing of an ornate interlaced monogram with acanthus scrolls on a cream page in a bound album.

Die verschlungenen Initialen der Anne de Chambré kalligraphisch verziert

1660

Pen and wash drawing of a winged putto and a woman on a stage with musicians playing viols, labeled Mode Ionien.

Mode Ionien

1660

Grey wash drawing of putti playing musical instruments before a colonnade and fountain labelled Sous Ionien.

Sous Ionien

1660

Engraving of a formal ball with dancing couples, musicians, and seated spectators in an ornate interior with tall windows.

The Ball

ca. 1634-35

Engraving of commedia dell'arte actors on a stage with arched backdrop, two onlookers in side balconies, and French verses be

Actors at the Hotel de Bourgogne

ca. 1633-34

Engraving of women visiting a new mother in a canopied bed, with children and a small dog on a tiled floor.

Visit to the New Mother

1633

Engraving of women gathered in a canopied bedchamber beside a resting woman, with a servant and a table of dishes at right.

Return from the Christening

1633

Etching of women dining at a long table in a decorated room with a fireplace, a servant, children and dogs, French verses bel

Wives at Table During the Absence of Their Husbands

ca. 1635-36

Engraving of women in lace collars dozing in a furnished room with a fireplace, tapestries and a flower basket.

Foolish Virgins Sleeping

ca. 1635

Engraving of a woman beating a kneeling man in a room with a fireplace, a rooster and hen, and a curtained bed.

The Husband-Beater

ca. 1633

Etching of fashionably dressed visitors entering a stone prison, with ragged prisoners, a chained man, and barred windows.

Gentry Visiting a Prison

Engraving of a 17th-century interior with women and children cooking by a fireplace and a servant setting a long dining table

Winter

ca. 1637