C'est le portrait de Guillery...

Abraham Bosse

Artist, French, 1602 - 1676

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etchingon laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2011.139.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Le Blanc 1854-1888, no. 843

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

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

Inscriptions

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

Markings

verso, stamp, blue oval [letters faded]

Wikidata ID

Q76558977

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