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The Bloodletting (The Trades, Plate 1)


Les Métiers: La Saignée
Abraham Bosse (French, 1604–1676)
Published by: Jean Le Blond I (French, 1590/94–1666)
about 1635

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 28.6 × 36.6 cm (11 1/4 × 14 7/16 in.)
Platemark: 26.3 × 34.2 cm (10 3/8 × 13 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number30.1069.1
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Blum 1041, only state; Duplessis 1391, only state; IFF 1391, i/ii; Le Blanc 747
Marks Verso, lower right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
Provenance1930, purchased by MFA. (Accession Date: July 1, 1930)