Childhood

1636

Abraham Bosse

Artist, French, 1602 - 1676

Jean Le Blond I

Publisher, French, 1590/1594 - 1666

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 25.8 × 32.4 cm (10 3/16 × 12 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.2095

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Le Blanc, no. 557

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, below image, four columns of verses in French; in plate, below image, at center: Les / IIII AAGES DE / l'Homme / faites par ABosse / Et ce Vendent Chez le Blond / Avec Privilege du Roy. 1636; verso: at lower right in graphite in later hand: 230

Markings

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

grapes

Wikidata ID

Q64952336

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