Method | Copper engraving |
Artist | Abraham Bosse |
Published | Par A. Bosse Graveur en taille douce, A Paris 1649. but later? |
Dimensions | Image and Plate 117 x 67 mm, Sheet 283 x 214 mm |
Notes |
Title page for Abraham Bosse's Sentimens sur la Distinction des Manieres de Peinture, Dessin et graueures. A seated woman representing Sculpture l and a woman standuing with a palette in her hand representing Painting look at a depciction of Minerva held by a winged putto. With the number Planche 77 inscribed in the upper right of the image. A plate from Charles Antoine Jombert's drawing book Nouvelle Méthode Pour Apprendre A Dessiner Sans Maître. Abraham Bosse (1604-1676) French printmaker and painter born in Tours and a member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and a student of the surveyor Girard Desargues, founder of projective geometry. Blum 599, Duplessis 713, Lothe 734 |
Framing | unmounted |
Price | £50.00 |
Stock ID | 36674 |