Abraham Bosse Art
Dutch, 1602-1676
Abraham Bosse was a French artist, mainly as a printmaker in etching, but also in watercolor. He was born to Huguenot (Calvinist) parents in Tours, France, where his father had moved from Germany. His father was a tailor, and Bosse's work always depicted clothes in loving detail. He married Catherine Sarrabat at Tours in 1632. Bosse remained a Huguenot, dying before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, but was happy to illustrate religious subjects to Catholic taste. Roughly 1600 etchings are attributed to him, with subjects including daily life religion, literature, history, fashion, technology and science. Most of Bosse's output was illustrations for books, but many were also sold separately. His style grows from Dutch and Flemish art but is given a strong French flavor. Many of his images give informative detail about middle and upper-class daily life in the period, although they must be treated with care as historical evidence. Bosse's combination of very carefully depicted grand interiors with relatively trivial domestic subjects was original and highly influential on French art, and also abroad, William Hogarth's engravings are, among other things, a parody of the style. Most of his images are perhaps best regarded as illustrations rather than art. He was apprenticed in Paris about 1620 to the Antwerp-born engraver Melchior Tavernier (1564–1641), who was also an important publisher. Bosse's first etchings date to 1622 and are influenced by Jacques Bellange. Following a meeting in Paris about 1630, he became a follower of Jacques Callot, whose technical innovations in etching he popularised in a famous and much translated Manual of Etching (1645), the first to be published. Bosse took Callot's highly detailed small images to a larger size and a wider range of subject matter. Unlike Callot, his declared aim, in which he largely succeeded, was to make etchings look like engravings, to which end he sacrificed willingly the freedom of the etched line, whilst certainly exploiting to the full the speed of the technique. Like most etchers, Bosse frequently used the engraving on a plate in addition to etching but produced no pure engravings.
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Portrait of an infamous thief
By Abraham Bosse
Located in Middletown, NY
A fascinating image of a well-known theif robbing a merchant of goods held atop her head.
Paris: circa 1670.
Etching and engraving on cream laid paper, 6 3/4 x 4 15/16 inches (17...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Abraham Bosse Art
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Group of seven (7) prints from Engravings of Plants + 1 Redouté
By Abraham Bosse
Located in Middletown, NY
Each a lithograph with hand coloring on watermarked Arches wove paper with a deckle edge. Each 16 1/4 x 12 1/4 (412 x 312 mm); sheet 26 x 19 3/4 inches (661 x 502 mm), each with full...
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Late 17th Century French School Abraham Bosse Art
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
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An original engraving and etching on laid paper by French artist Abraham Bosse (c.1602-1604-1676) titled "Un homme se dirigeant a droite monte un degre" 1629. Comes from the 1629 portfolio "The Garden of the French Nobles In Which One Can Pick Up Their Way of Dressing (La Jardin de la Noblesse Françoise dans lequel ce peut ceuillir leur maniere de Vettements)", a series of 18 plates. This etching is after a painting by French artist Jean de-Saint-Igny (ca. 1595-1600). This artwork is in many permanent museum collection including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Provenance: ex-permanent collection Bass Art Museum, Miami, Florida. Framed size: 16.5" x 14.5". Image size: 5.5" x 3.5". A rich impression, in excellent condition. Rare.
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