(The Four ages of Man, by Abraham Bosse

An image of Print Album. Maturity Les IIII Ages de l'Homme (The Four ages of Man). Bosse, Abraham (French, 1602-1676). Le Blond, Jean I, publisher (French, c. 1594-1666). Etching, 1636. Alternative Number: Blum; 154. Related Objects: 30.I.5-276; Childhood. 30.I.5-277; Youth. 30.I.5-279; Old Age. Part Of: 30.I.5; Oeuvre de Bosse Vol. 2

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Print Album. Maturity Les IIII Ages de l'Homme (The Four ages of Man). Bosse, Abraham (French, 1602-1676). Le Blond, Jean I, publisher (French, c. 1594-1666). Etching, 1636. Alternative Number: Blum; 154. Related Objects: 30.I.5-276; Childhood. 30.I.5-277; Youth. 30.I.5-279; Old Age. Part Of: 30.I.5; Oeuvre de Bosse Vol. 2

Image data

Accession Number: 30.I.5-278
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 817 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 246.47kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

Key words

17th Century Abraham Bosse album bed bedroom bedstead Bosse Cayley Robinson children clothes clothing collar costume diners dining dining table dinner dinnertime dogs domestic dress etching families family fashion female Fitz_PDP food food and drink four poster bed frame framed Frederick Cayley Robinson French hats homes houses housewife husband husband and wife infants interior Jean Le Blond large family lattice windows male meals mealtime mother pets print print album relations relatives repast residence tablecloth tables tapestries tapestry textile wife window windows woman

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2026)
            "(The Four ages of Man, by Abraham Bosse"
            Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-1210779422 Accessed: 2026-01-19 09:37:46

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-1210779422
            |title=(The Four ages of Man, by Abraham Bosse
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2026-01-19 09:37:46|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-217756

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/large_30_I_5_278_1_201811_amt49_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Maturity"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">(The Four ages of Man, by Abraham Bosse</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>