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 × 12 3/4 inches (26 × 32.4 cm) Sheet: 10 3/4 × 13 3/8 inches (27.3 × 34 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
45.485
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower center: LES VIERGES FOLLES. Inscribed, a poem in four columns: O qu'vne Ame a de mal, lors que la non-chalance | L'Esloigne du vray bien, pour l'en prieur en fin! | Et que cessant d'agir auecque vigilance, | Elle va mollement au seruice diuin ! || Ce mistique Tableau nous en fournit l'exemple, | Où Celles que le Monde amusoit vainement; | N'ayant assez | à temps pris le chemin du Temple, | Portent la peine enfin de leur retardement. || Abordant ce Saint lieu, soudain ces Vierges folles, En qui l'humeur legere au peu de soin se joint; | Entendent vne voix, qui leur dict ces parolles, | Retirez vous d'icy, ie ne vous connoy point. || Surprises de ces mots, elles sont sans excuse ; | Tant la peur les saisit d'vn violant accez ; | Et s'en reuont ainsi pleintiue et confuses, | Du regret qu'elles ont dvn si mauuais succez. Inscribed, below poem, lower center: le Blond excud. avec Privilege de Roy. Inscribed, in pencil, verso: D 48
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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, 45.485.
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