A woman standing, facing the left in profile, wearing a hat and a lace collar, reading from a prayer book, from "French Nobility at Church"
Abraham Bosse|Jean de Saint-Igny
ca. 1629
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 6 1/8 × 3 13/16 in. (15.5 × 9.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.23
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
BooksHatsProfilesWomenReading
About the Artist
Abraham Bosse|Jean de Saint-Igny · 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 ...