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La Fortune de la France: 30.I.4-225

Current Location: In storage

Titles

La Fortune de la France
An allegory of Fortune distributing gifts to the French

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bosse, Abraham

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount

Dating

17th Century#
Circa 1635 CE - Circa 1638 CE

Note

State before all lettering. Blum considered that the print was related to the birth of the Dauphin and dated it to 1638; Préaud (exhibition cat. 2000 'Abraham Bosse, savant graveur') disagreed and dated it slightly earlier.

School or Style

French

Techniques used in production

Etching

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: 30.I.4-225
Primary reference Number: 194441
BN Inventaire (17thC): 1227
Blum: 1062

Audit data

Created: Friday 12 April 2013 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "La Fortune de la France" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/194441 Accessed: 2024-05-07 20:23:41

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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/194441 |title=La Fortune de la France |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-05-07 20:23:41|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

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