Le Retour du Baptesme (Return from the Baptism), Plate IV, from Le Mariage à la Ville (Marriage in the City)
date: label: Date
content: 1633
name: label: Artist
content: Abraham Bosse, French, 1602–1676
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: In a fashionable upper-middle class interior, a mother receives her new infant daughter from the "foster mother" while siblings and friends look on. The mother reclines in a stylish four-poster "box-shaped" bed (popular 1625-75) with hangings and coverings matching the upholstery on the nearby chair. Cups with ostrich feathers crown the four bedposts. A servant sets a table with tarts and fruits to celebrate the event. On the back wall, a tapestry depicting Diana, the protectress of childbirth and goddess of chastity (like Daphne, her arms are turning into laurel leaves). Scene is surrounded by a palmette-decorated frame.
place: label: made in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program and Eleanor G. Hewitt Funds
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1996-33-1
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching with engraving on thin white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 29.9 x 38.6 cm (11 3/4 x 15 3/16 in. )