About the Artwork
L'Hôtel de Bourgogne
ca. 1630
Abraham Bosse (Artist) French, 1602-1676 Le Blond (Publisher) French
Engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 13 1/4 inches (25.7 × 33.7 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund
61.27
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower left of image: ABosse in et fe
Inscribed, in plate, lower center of image: le Blond excud Avec Privilege du Roy. Inscribed, below image, a poem in five quatrains: Que ce Theatre est magnifique ! | Que ces Acters sont inuentifs ! | Et qu'ils ont de preseruatifs | Contre l'humeur melancolique! || Icy d'vne posture drolle | Ils nazardent le mauuais temps ; Et charment tous les Escouttans, | Auec vne seule parolle || Icy l'ingenieux Guillaume | Contre faisant l'homme de Cour, | Se plaist à gourmander l'Amour, | Troussé comme un joueur de paume || Icy d'vne façon hagarde | Turlupin veur faire l'Escroq ; | Et l'Espaignol de peur du choq, | Fuit le François qui le regarde || Mais le vray Gautier les surpasse, | Et malgré la rigeur du sort, | Il nous fait rire apres sa mort, | Au souuenir de sa grimasse
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1961-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Abraham Bosse, L'Hôtel de Bourgogne, ca. 1630, engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund, 61.27.
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