About the Artwork
Les vierges sages
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 inches (26 × 33 cm) Sheet: 11 × 13 3/4 inches (27.9 × 34.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
45.481
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Markings
Signed, in plate, lower right: ABosse jnv. et fe.
Inscribed, in plate, lower center: LES VIERGES SAGES. Inscribed, a poem, in four columns: Ces belles Vierges que tu vois | Tout à lentour de cette Table ; | Des hauts Mysteres de la Croix | Font leur entretien delectable || Scachant que le Monde n'est rien, | A bon droit Elles le mesprisent ; | et cherchent le fouuerain bien | dans les S[ts] liures qu'elles lisent || Leur cœur bruslant de Charité, | De remords secrets ne se ronge ; | Et l'amour de la verité, | Leur fait detester le Mensonge. || Ainsi, sans jamais souspirer | Apres les delices mortelles ; | On les voit tousjours aspirer | Aux felicitez eternelles. Inscribed, below poem, lower center: le Blond excud avec Privilege du Roy. Inscribed, in pencil, verso: D 43
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1945-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hennin, M. Michel, ed. M. Georges Duplessis. Inventaire de la collection d'estamps relatives à l'histoire de France, tome I. Paris, 1887, p. 337.
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Abraham Bosse, Les vierges sages, ca. 1635, engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 45.481.
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