Les vierges folles

ca. 1635

Abraham Bosse , Artist Le Blond , Publisher

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About the Artwork

Title Les vierges folles

Artwork Date ca. 1635

Makers Abraham Bosse (Artist) French, 1602-1676 Le Blond (Publisher) French

Medium Engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper

Dimensions Plate: 10 1/8 × 12 3/4 inches (25.7 × 32.4 cm) Sheet: 10 1/2 × 13 5/8 inches (26.7 × 34.6 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 45.484

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Inscriptions Inscribed, lower center, a poem in four columns: Ces Vierges au lieu de veiller, | En attendant l'Espous celeste, | Perdent le temps à sōmeiller, | Tant leur paresse est manifeste. || Contraines à leur propre bien, Par foiblesse, ou par nonchalance; | Elles ne considerent rien,| Et n'ont ny soing ny preuoyance. || Tandis que le luxe et le jeu | Charment ces pauures Insensées; | Leurs Lampes sans huile et sans feu, | Sont pesle-mesle renuersées. || Ainsi leur Esprit débauché, | Sans auoir ny Guide, ny Phare, | Dan l'obscuritédu Peché, | Par sa propre faute s'esgare. Inscribed, below poem, lower center: le Blond exc avec Privil. Inscribed, in pencil, verso: D 47

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1945-present purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Abraham Bosse, Les vierges folles, ca. 1635, engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 45.484.

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