Jean Couvay (1605-1663) e Abraham Bosse (1604-1676) - Bias
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Jean Couvay and Abraham Bosse’s 1640 etching *Bias* depicts Bias of Priene for the series *The Seven Sages of Greece*.
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Rare original engraving executed by Jean Couvay for the figure, together with Abraham Bosse, who created the background, for the series “The Seven Sages of Greece,” based on preparatory drawings by the French painter and illustrator Claude Vignon, and depicting Bias of Priene.
Print trimmed to the platemark, just trimmed along the lower edge, with a slightly wider margin at the top, on watermarked laid paper, in good condition, with the handwritten addition “Prieneus” below the name and an inscription in Greek characters in the upper margin (see photo).
At the bottom, “Vignon Inventor”; below the image, the title in the center, with a three-line French inscription in two columns at either side: “Ce bien que...//...me scauroit oster”; at the lower margin, “Ciuvay fecit” is just visible on the left and “Mariette excudit Avec Privilegie” in the center.
In the foreground, Bias, shown full-length and wearing a fur hat, walks to the right; in the background, a city is ablaze.
IFF, 61; Blum, 1471; Duplessis, 1466; Lothe, 100.
Rare original engraving executed by Jean Couvay for the figure, together with Abraham Bosse, who created the background, for the series “The Seven Sages of Greece,” based on preparatory drawings by the French painter and illustrator Claude Vignon, and depicting Bias of Priene.
Print trimmed to the platemark, just trimmed along the lower edge, with a slightly wider margin at the top, on watermarked laid paper, in good condition, with the handwritten addition “Prieneus” below the name and an inscription in Greek characters in the upper margin (see photo).
At the bottom, “Vignon Inventor”; below the image, the title in the center, with a three-line French inscription in two columns at either side: “Ce bien que...//...me scauroit oster”; at the lower margin, “Ciuvay fecit” is just visible on the left and “Mariette excudit Avec Privilegie” in the center.
In the foreground, Bias, shown full-length and wearing a fur hat, walks to the right; in the background, a city is ablaze.
IFF, 61; Blum, 1471; Duplessis, 1466; Lothe, 100.
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Jean Couvay (1605-1663) e Abraham Bosse (1604-1676)
Title of artwork
Bias
Technique
Etching
Signature
Plate signed
Country of origin
France
Year
1640
Condition
Good condition
Height
370 mm
Width
218 mm
Depiction/theme
Portrait
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Period
17th century
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