Le Sculpteur dans son atelier (The Sculptor in his Studio)
Abraham Bosse, French, 1602 - 1676
about 1642
Etching on laid paper
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 12 5/8 in. (25.7 × 32 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund, the Florence and Lansing Porter Moore 1937 Fund, and the Stephen and Constance Spahn "63 Acquisition Fund
2016.24.3
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
On view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Voicy la representation d'un Sculpteur dans son Attelier / Les choses dont il forme ses ouurages sont diuerses, de diferente nature, et il y procede en diferentes facons, les dures Com[m]e la pierre et le bois il les faconne en ostant de la matiere auec le cizeau le maillet et au[tr]es outilz, et les molles Comme la Cire et largile, il les faconne en mettant de la matiere avec le poulce et lesbauchoir, fouuent il se fait un modelle de sa penseé com[m]e il en tient a la main et quapres il Coppie en une au[tr]e grandeur / fait aleau forte par ABosse [AB in ligature], a Paris en Lisle du palais, Ian 1642, auec Priuilege
Course History
ARTH 27.02, Living Stone: Sculpture in Early Modern Italy, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Winter 2022
Exhibition History
Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.
Provenance
Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints and Drawings, Dallas, Texas; sold to present collection, 2016.
Catalogue Raisonne
Blum 204; Duplessis 160.1386; Lothe 264.253
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