Title Page for Callot's "The Small Miseries of War"
Abraham Bosse
1636
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 5.8 × 11.7 cm (2 5/16 × 4 5/8 in.) sheet: 10 × 6.1 cm (3 15/16 × 2 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
R.L. Baumfeld Collection
Accession Number
1969.15.894
About the Artist
Abraham Bosse · 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 ...