Title page for Abraham Bosse's Sentimens sur la Distinction des Manieres de Peinture, Dessin et graueures

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

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