About the Artwork
Les vierges folles
ca. 1635
Abraham Bosse (Artist) French, 1602-1676 Le Blond (Publisher) French
Engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 10 1/4 × 13 1/8 inches (26 × 33.3 cm) Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 7/8 inches (27.6 × 35.2 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
45.483
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower right of image: ABosse jnv. et fe.
Inscribed, in plate, lower center: LES VIERGES FOLLES. Inscribed, a poem in four columns: Tu vois comme ces Vierges foles | S'amusent invutilement | Apres des actions friuoles, | Dont Elles font leur Element. || Les Jeux, les Festins, la Musique, | La Dance, et les liures d'Amour ; | C'est à quoy leur Esprit s'applque, | Y passant la nuict, et le jour. || O que ces Ames insensées | Cherissent les Mondanités ! | Leur parolles, et leurs pensées | Ne s'attachent qu'aux Vanités. || D'vn faux lustre leur vie esclatte; | Elles aime ce qui leur nuit | Et lors que le Monde les flatte, | Il les enchante et les destruit. Inscribed, below poem, lower center: A Paris, Chez le Blond, rue St. Denys, au Pavillion Royal. Avec Privilege du Roy Inscribed, in pencil, verso: D 46
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1945-present purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Abraham Bosse, Les vierges folles, ca. 1635, engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 45.483.
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