Border at Bottom Center: Portrait of Gaston of France in an Ornamental Border, from a group of sixteen plates originally mounted as a single sheet, entitled Siège de La Rochelle (The Seige of La Rochelle)
Abraham Bosse|Michel Lasne
1628–31
Medium
Etching and letterpress; third state of four (Lieure)
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 3/8 x 15 1/16 in. (16.2 x 38.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957
Accession Number
57.650.428
About the Artist
Abraham Bosse|Michel Lasne · 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 ...