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Object Type
Museum number: 1868,0612.422
Title: Series: Les Vierges sages et les vierges folles
Description: Plate 4: the foolish virgins around a table with a sphere on it, playing cards, reading, playing guitar, while another is looking at her reflection in a mirror; oil-lamps in the bottom right corner, tapestries and mythological paintings with Venus on the wall. c.1635 Etching
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School/style
Production date: 1635 (c.)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 250 millimetres (cut); Width: 324 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1868-6-12-424 for comment; the lower part, with the publication address of Leblond, has been cut off
Bibliographic references: Blum 1924 / L'Oeuvre gravé d'Abraham Bosse (1017); Duplessis 1859 / Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Abraham Bosse (46); Lothe 2008 / L'Oeuvre gravé d'Abraham Bosse graveur parisien du XVIIe siècle (16)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: parable of wise and foolish virgins; interior; town house; french costume 17thc
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0612.422

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