The Noble Painter (Trades) - Abraham Bosse

1. Signed at the bottom of the engraving on the left "ABosse in. et fe.", in the center "le Blond excud auec Priuilege du Roy".

Que le Graveur ingénieux
Faict bien icy voir à nos yeux
L'excellence de la peinture!!
And how beautiful this and Art seems to me,
When it imitates Nature,
By the wonders of the brush!

Celuy whose noble manner
Joins shadows to light
In a thousand different pictures;
Is not one of those vulgar Painters,
Who pass for ignorans
In their ordinary Works

He executes and brings to light
All that War and Love
Ont of memorable and estrange ;
And seems to who sees his designs,
That it is Apelle or Michael the Angel
Who guides his Art and his hands.

1. Serie des Métiers ?
2. Another copy in the Rijksmuseum, RP-P-OB-42.183.