Blanton Museum of Art - Le Retour du baptême [The Baptism], plate 4 from Le Mariage à la ville [The Marriage in the City]

Le Retour du baptême [The Baptism], plate 4 from Le Mariage à la ville [The Marriage in the City]

1633
17th century
26.2 cm x 33.4 cm (10 5/16 in. x 13 1/8 in.)

Abraham Bosse (Tours, France, 1602 - 1676, Paris) Primary

Object Type: print

Artist Nationality: Europe, French

Medium and Support: Etching and engraving

Credit Line: Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002

Accession Number: 2002.379.4/6

Abraham Bosse continued his commentary on marriage in the series Marriage in the Country. The tone is decidedly softer than in Marriage in the City. Friends and relatives bring gifts of cooking pots and linen to the new bride as she sets up household. In the final verse of the inscription, the bride assures her benefactors that they will be thanked when her children - not yet born - come of age, stressing the bonds marriage forged between generations and within communities.

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figurative

ceremony

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Happiest Day: Wedding Customs in Transition

Prints - French 14th-18th c.