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L'homme fourré de malice
The Man Filled with Malice
L'homme fourré de malice
French
about 1650
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 28.5 × 19.7 cm (11 1/4 × 7 3/4 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number44.994
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Blum 1085, only state; Duplessis 1411, only state; IFF 1411; Le Blanc 842
DescriptionMan in cap, cloak "lined" with engraved women's faces, seated and leaning on table. "Je ne vois point que le Graveur/ ait pour raison que son caprice/ quand il appelle se resueur/ un homme fourré de malice..." Bound in Bosse book, Oeuvre Gravé.
Marks
Verso, lower left, 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)