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The Wise and Foolish Virgins

Abraham Bosse , Artist Le Blond , Publisher
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About the Artwork

The Wise and Foolish Virgins

ca. 1635

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

Engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper

Plate: 10 × 12 3/4 inches (25.4 × 32.4 cm) Sheet: 11 × 13 5/8 inches (27.9 × 34.6 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund

45.486

Public Domain

Markings

Inscribe, upper left: Sortez voicy L'ESPOVS Inscribed, a poem in four columns: O que de saints rauissemens, | Que de suiets incōparables, | Et combien d'entretiens charmans | Occupent ces Vierges louables ? || Peut on pas dire en verité, | Qu'en tout temps leur Ame s'espure | Dans le feu de la Charité, | Dont leurs Lampes sont la figure || Les hauts mysteres de la Croix | Explicqués dans quelque saint liure, | Attirent leurs yeux, et leur voix | Vers l'Espous qu'elles veule suiure. || L'Esprit ne scauroit l'imiter | L'ardant zele qui les embrase, | Et qui les peut bien imiter | Jusqu'au Ciel sésleue en exstase. Inscribed, below poem, lower center: le Blond exc. avec Privilege.

Watermark: [partial device, includes letters?] Marks, in brown ink, center right edge: [aint, illegible notation] Marks, in pencil, verso, lower right margin: D 49

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

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Abraham Bosse, The Wise and Foolish Virgins, ca. 1635, engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 45.486.

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