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The Bloodletting (The Trades, Plate 1)
French
about 1635
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 33.6 × 42.5 cm (13 1/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
Platemark: 26.5 × 34.5 cm (10 7/16 × 13 9/16 in.)
Platemark: 26.5 × 34.5 cm (10 7/16 × 13 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number44.982
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Blum 1041, only state; Duplessis 1391, only state; IFF 1391, a state before Bosse's name has been effaced; Le Blanc 747
DescriptionWoman being bled by a doctor, attended by servants in bedchamber (with dog, cat and child). "La courage Monsieur vous laues enterrepris..."
Bound in Bosse book, Oeuvre Gravé.
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)