Visiting the Sick
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/16 × 12 5/8 in. (25.5 × 32.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.49.19
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the intimate etching and engraving *Visiting the Sick*, artists Abraham Bosse and Jean I Leblond capture a poignant moment of everyday compassion. Bosse, a leading 17th-century etcher renowned for his detailed genre scenes of bourgeois life, collaborated with engraver Jean Iblond to produce this, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of's Drawings and Prints department. The exact date is unknown, but it reflects the Baroque era's fascination with realism and human emotion, blending etching's fluid, spontaneous lines—Bosse's specialty—with engraving's crisp precision for widespread reproduct...
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 ...