A woman standing, facing the left in profile, wearing a hat and a lace collar, reading from a prayer book, from "French Nobility at Church"
Abraham Bosse|Jean de Saint-Igny
ca. 1629
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 6 1/8 × 3 13/16 in. (15.5 × 9.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.23
Tags
BooksHatsProfilesWomenReading
About the Artist
Abraham Bosse|Jean de Saint-Igny · 1602–1676
Abraham Bosse (1604–1676) was a French printmaker and theorist whose approximately 1,600 etchings provide an unparalleled visual record of 17th-century French life. Born to Huguenot parents in Tours, he trained in Paris under Melchior Tavernier and became a devoted follower of Jacques Callot's technical innovations. Bosse's meticulous etchings depicted subjects ranging from daily life and fashion ...