Border at Bottom Center: Portrait of Gaston of France in an Ornamental Border, from a group of sixteen plates originally mounted as a single sheet, entitled Siège de La Rochelle (The Seige of La Rochelle)
1628–31
Medium
Etching and letterpress; third state of four (Lieure)
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 3/8 x 15 1/16 in. (16.2 x 38.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957
Accession Number
57.650.428
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Abraham Bosse|Michel Lasne · 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 ...