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Last Name Bosse

Given Name Abraham

alt. Names A. B. ;

Marriage Marie Martinet in 1632

Children

Year born 1604 OR 1602/1611 ? in Tours

Year died 1676 (OR after 1678)

Place of death Paris

Father's occupation tailor

Relatives

Education taught by engraver Melchior II Tavernier, Claude Vignon & Jacques Bellange. drawing, engravingin Paris

Country of Activity France

Worked for Denis Dodart: Histoire Nat. des Plantes (1676) ; botanist Guy de La Brosse: Jardin du Roi (1641) ; Manière universelle de M. Desargues pour pratiquer la Perspective (Paris 1648) ;

Patronage Laurent de La Hyre ; French King Louis XIV ; Colbert ; until 1661: artist Le Brun, directeur of Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Paris

Collaborators mathematician Gérard Desargues ; engraver Jacques Callot ; Nicolas Robert ; Louis Chatillon ; Sebastien LeClerc ; Jacques Bailly ; Israel Sylvestre ; M. Tavernier ; printer Frederic Leonard ;

Techniques botanical, technical, mathematical, geometric, and perspectival copperplate engraving, etching, and drawing

Sample(s) http://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts/2008/04/soft-cutting.html ; http://en.wahooart.com/@@/8Y3U4V-Abraham-Bosse-A-Printer%27s-Workshop-%283%29

Archival sources Recueil d'estampes pour servier a l'Histoire des Plantes; l'histoire des Animaux; BNBF: Recueil des plantes gravées par ordre du roi Louis XIV;

Published sources AKL 13 1996: 205 ; ThB 4 1910: 402 ; Fleury 1969: 664 ; Michaud: Biog. Univers. vol. 5: 222-3 ; Luc Vezin: Artistes Jardin Plantes 1990: 19 ; Pinault 1992: 34 ; Anita Guerrini: king's animals Ann Sci 67, 3 2010: 383-404 ; Renaux 2008: 8-9, 33, 43, 65,73, 77-81, 84-7, 97, 113 & 118 ; Escardó 2022: 84 ; Becker 2015 : 88 ;

other Instructor of perspective, engr. & illustr., author or related topics; cf. http://books.google.de/books?id=VJOTdXz_TvoC&dq=Mani%C3%A8re+Universelle+de+M.+Desargues&lr=&hl=de&source=gbs_navlinks_s.

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