Woman Holding a Fan, from "The Garden of the French Nobles In Which One Can Pick Up Their Way of Dressing"
Abraham Bosse
1629
Medium
Etching; first state of two
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 5 1/2 × 3 13/16 in. (14 × 9.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957
Accession Number
57.584.1
Tags
FansWomen
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 ...