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The Noble Painter, c. 1642. Etching on ivory laid paper.
Etching on ivory laid paper · Sheet (trimmed): 25.8 × 32.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Noble Painter
- Artist
- Abraham Bosse French, 1602–1676
- Date
- c. 1642
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet (trimmed): 25.8 × 32.6 cm (10 3/16 × 12 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds
- 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.