C'est le portrait de Guillery...

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Medium

etchingon laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 14.4 x 11.8 cm (5 11/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
mount: 19.8 x 14.1 cm (7 13/16 x 5 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

Catalogue Raisonné

Le Blanc 1854-1888, no. 843

Accession Number

2011.139.5

Artists / Makers

Abraham Bosse (artist) French, 1602 - 1676

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate [on tablet]: A. Bosse fec; lower margin of plate: Cest le portrait de guillery / qui fut un grant voleur infame / Iadis il voloit / [ ] mary / Maintenant il vole la femine Mariette excudit; by later hand, lower left on mount, in graphite: Bosse; by later hand, lower right on mount, in graphite: Blum 1416 / Geo. Duplessis Cat (1859) 1410; by later hand, upper right verso: J153

Marks and Labels

verso, stamp, blue oval [letters faded]

Provenance

Leo Steinberg [1920-2011], New York; gift to NGA 2011.

Associated Names

Steinberg, Leo, Estate of

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....Paris, 1854-1888, no. 843.