Summer
ca. 1637
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/16 × 12 13/16 in. (25.6 × 32.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.49.32
Tags
Art Historical Context
### Summer Created around 1637, *Summer* is an exquisite etching by French artists Abraham Bosse and Jean Leblond, measuring10 1/16 ×12 13/16. Housed in the Museum of Art's and Prints department (ac via the Harris Brisbane Dick in 1926), print likely belongs to a series depicting the seasons—a popular motif in17th-century European art symbol the cycle of life,, and leisure. Featuring men and in period attire, it the vibrancy of summertime against a backdrop of natural abundance. Abraham Bosse, a leading etcher of his era, was renowned for his precise reproductive prints and detailed scenes of...
About the Artist
Abraham Bosse|Jean I Leblond · 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 ...