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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)

Abraham Bosse, 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)

Abraham Bosse, 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)

Abraham Bosse, 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)

Abraham Bosse, 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)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1632-33

Watercolor landscape of a hillside village above a bay, with dancing women and seated figures among trees in the foreground.

View of Vietri with Young Country Women Dancing for Shepherds in the Foreground

Joseph Anton Koch, 1800

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)

Abraham Bosse, 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)

Abraham Bosse, 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)

Abraham Bosse, 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"

Abraham Bosse, 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)

Abraham Bosse, 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)

Abraham Bosse, 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)

Abraham Bosse, 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)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1637

Engraving of a man in a plumed hat beside a tower and cannon, with a burning castle and fireworks in the background.

Fire (Le Feu)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1648

Pencil portrait of a young woman with dark hair, dark lace collar and shawl, signed and dated 1842.

Portrait of Baroness Gudin, née Margareth Louis Hay

Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1842

Pen and gray wash design drawing of two egg cups and a lidded salt cellar with ornamental swags and figural supports.

Design for Parade Egg Cups and Combined Egg Cup/Salt Cellar with Lid

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Hand-colored print of a skeleton wheeling a drunk man in a barrow past a woman with a cane and a thatched inn.

The Sot (The English Dance of Death, plate 12)

Thomas Rowlandson, July 1814

Engraving of the Man of Sorrows, a seated bearded figure with a crown of thorns and halo, hands crossed on his chest, dated 1

The Man of Sorrows

Albrecht Dürer, 1515

Pen and wash drawing of a muscular man bound and hanging by his wrists from a crossbar between two wooden posts.

A Man Hanging by His Arms (the Corpse of the King?)

Frans Floris, mid-16th century

Pencil and red chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man praying with clasped hands before a bowl of soup and apples.

The Benediction

Jacques-André Portail, ca. 1760

Engraving of a standing sibyl in feathered headdress holding a flower, with a haloed figure in light at right.

Sibylle Agrippa, from "Douze Sibylles"

Gilles Rousselet, ca. 1635

Etching of a kneeling woman restrained before a crowned figure, with a mounted rider, an angel above, and crowds in a city st

The Martyrdom of St. Catherine

Claude Vignon, ca. 1627

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi: the Virgin holding the Christ Child, a kneeling crowned king, attendants, and a star's

The Adoration of the Magi

Claude Vignon, 1619

Etching of two draped saints resting in a stone tomb while a winged angel with a palm frond hovers above.

Death of St. Peter and St. Paul (Saint Pierre et Saint Paul dans le tombeau)

Claude Vignon, 17th century