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The Wedding Feast (Le Mariage à la campagne, Plate 3)

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: 28 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in.)
Platemark: 26.2 × 33.3 cm (10 5/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number44.973
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrintsAlbums

Catalogue Raisonné Blum 0964, i/ii; Duplessis 1382, i/ii; IFF 1382, i/ii; Le Blanc 774
DescriptionRevellers drinking and "serenading" newlyweds. "Le Marié fera du bruit/Si je vay fluter a sa porte..."
Bound in Bosse book, Oeuvre Gravé.
Marks Verso, bottom 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)