Abraham BOSSE
1602 - 1676
The Feast of the Knights of the Holy Spirit
1633-1634
Plate from a series of four subjects for Pierre d’Hozier’s work Les Noms, surnoms, qualitez, armes et blasons des chevaliers et officiers de l’ordre du Saint-Esprit (The Names, Nicknames, Qualities, Arms and Coats of Arms of the Knights and Officers of the Order of the Holy Spirit).
Original etching
280 × 345 mm, trimmed slightly outside the platemark
Fine impression of the first state (of 2), before Mondhare’s address, yellowed, restorations along the edges
On the reverse, stains, trace of an old central vertical fold, traces of glue along the edges
Reference: Duplessis 1210, Blum 139, Join-Lambert and Préaud 90, Lothe 1316 i/ii