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Childhood: Depicting the Four Ages of Man, 1636. Etching on paper.
Etching on paper · 26.3 × 32.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Childhood: Depicting the Four Ages of Man
- Artist
- Abraham Bosse French, 1602-1676
- Date
- 1636
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.3 × 32.6 cm (10 3/8 × 12 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Joseph Brooks Fair Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1602–1676
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.