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A Woman Standing with a Fan before a Mirror


La Dame reformée
Abraham Bosse (French, 1604–1676)
Published by: Jean Le Blond I (French, 1590/94–1666)
French
about 1633
Object Place: France

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 29 × 19.9 cm (11 7/16 × 7 13/16 in.)(trimmed on the platemark)
Credit Line The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number44.956
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrintsAlbums

Catalogue Raisonné Blum 0961, only state; Duplessis 1357, only state; IFF 1357
DescriptionWoman at dressing table, holding fan, gesturing to proper right.
Bound in Bosse book, Oeuvre Gravé.
Marks Verso, upper left-center, stamped in yellow-brown ink, the mark of the MFA Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
ProvenanceJohn Evelyn (b. 1620-d. 1706), London. Elizabeth Day McCormick (b. 1873-d. 1957), Chicago; 1944, her gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 8, 1996)