Print, Le Retour du Baptesme (Return from the Baptism), Plate IV, from Le Mariage à la Ville (Marriage in the City)

This is a Print. It was created by Abraham Bosse. It is dated 1633 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is etching with engraving on thin white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program and Eleanor G. Hewitt Funds.

Its dimensions are

29.9 x 38.6 cm (11 3/4 x 15 3/16 in. )

It has the following markings

Watermark: Unidentified: Bunch of grapes (with unread letters countermark)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in plate, lower margin, left: Ayant apprehende quelque danger de mort,/ Ma peine s'est changee en un bon heur extreme,/ Puis que mon cher enfant que j'estime si fort/ Libre du tout peril a receu le baptesme./ In center: Mademe vostre fille est maintenent Chrestienne,/ Elle a receu le nom de Marie aujourdhuy,/ Je prie Dieu pour elle, afin qu'il la maintienne,/ Et vous pareillement, sans peine, et sans ennuy./ At right: Puisse un jour celle fille à la gloire des siens,/ Se fair renommer aussy sage que belle,/ Et se voir à la fin au comble de tous biens,/ Voila quels sont les veux que nous faisons pour elle. [Having feared death, my pain is changed to good luck since my child who I love so much is free from danger and has received baptism. Madame, your daughter is now a Christian. She received the name of Mary today. I pray to God that he will keep her and you free from difficulty and vexation. Make this young girl the glory of her family. Make her famous, as wise as she is beautiful and see that she is overwhelmed with good things. These are the wishes that we make for her.] Underneath in one line: Le retour de Baptesme faict par Abraham Bosse et ce vendent à Paris chex luy en l'isle du Palais proche le pont neuf. [The return from Baptism made by Abraham Bosse and this is sold in Paris at his place on the Isle du Palais near the Pont Neuf.]

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