Artist: Abraham Bosse (about 1604-1676)
Title: Feeding the hungry, plate 1 from The Seven Acts of Mercy
Date: 1635-40
School: French, XVIIth-century
Medium: etching with some engraving
Dimensions: 252 x 315mm (trimmed to the printed border)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: printed title and verse, <<ABosse inu. et fe.>> in the plate lower right, <<le Blond excud avec Priuilege du Roy>> in the plate centre below verse.
Condition: Fine impression of the first of two states before alterations to the servant’s clothing and hair
Reference: Duplessis 50 i/ii; Blum 1021 i/ii
Provenance: Paul Prouté, Paris 2006
