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Abraham Bosse

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Abraham Bosse , 1602-76, French engraver and painter. He studied art in Paris and became a teacher of perspective in the Académie royale. A prolific and skillful worker, he engraved more than 1,400 pieces. He is best known for his faithful representation of French civil life and costumes during the period of Louis XIII. Bosse wrote several valued treatises on art and perspective. One of his rare paintings, The Foolish Virgins, is in the Cluny Museum, Paris. ... Read more
Bosse, Abraham
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Bosse, Abraham (1602–76). French printmaker and writer on art. His large output (more than 1,500 prints in etching and engraving) provides...as valuable historically, for it shows a classical dignity of composition, sometimes coupled with sensitive handling of light. Bosse taught perspective at the ... Read more
Bosse, Abraham
The Oxford Dictionary of Art Bosse, Abraham ( b Tours, 1604; d Paris, Feb. 1676). French printmaker and writer on art. His large output (more than 1,500 prints in etching...as valuable historically, for it shows a classical dignity of composition, sometimes coupled with sensitive handling of light. Bosse taught perspective at the ... Read more

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