Manhood

1636

Jean Le Blond I

Publisher, French, 1590/1594 - 1666

Abraham Bosse

Artist, French, 1602 - 1676

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 25.5 × 32 cm (10 1/16 × 12 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.2092

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Le Blanc, no. 559

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 230); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1854

  • Le Blanc, Charles. _Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, in image, along bottom: ABosse inv. et fe. le Blond excud avec Privilege.; in plate, below image, four columns of verses in French; verso: at lower right in graphite in later hand: 230

Markings

recto: none; verso: Lessing J. Rosenwald and National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64952332

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