Sunday, November 6, 2022

Abraham Bosse
(c. 1604 - 1676)

Abraham Bosse was a French artist, mainly as a printmaker in etching, but also in watercolour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Bosse

Engravers and etchers at work
1643
Etching
National Gallery of Art
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.34677.html


On the left an artist drawing on a copperplate with varnish on the right an artist working with burins (see detail)
Although this may look like an engraving it is an etching.
The text at the bottom describes the difference between the two techniques.
It was Bosse’s aim, in which he largely succeeded, to make etchings look like engravings, to which end he sacrificed willingly the freedom of the etched line, whilst certainly exploiting to the full the speed of the technique. Like most etchers, he frequently used engraving on a plate in addition to etching, but produced no pure engravings.


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