![Le Retour du baptême [The Baptism], plate 4 from Le Mariage à la ville [The Marriage in the City]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14986/preview)
![Le Retour du baptême [The Baptism], plate 4 from Le Mariage à la ville [The Marriage in the City]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14986/full)
Le Retour du baptême [The Baptism], plate 4 from Le Mariage à la ville [The Marriage in the City]
Primary
Abraham Bosse
(Tours, France, 1602–Paris, France, 1676)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1633
MediumEtching and engraving
DimensionsSheet: 10 5/16 × 13 1/8 in. (26.2 × 33.4 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002.379.4
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.379.4/6
On View
Not on viewAbraham Bosse continued his commentary on marriage in the series Marriage in the Country. The tone is decidedly softer than in Marriage in the City. Friends and relatives bring gifts of cooking pots and linen to the new bride as she sets up household. In the final verse of the inscription, the bride assures her benefactors that they will be thanked when her children - not yet born - come of age, stressing the bonds marriage forged between generations and within communities.
Exhibitions
![La Visite à l'accouchée [The Bedside Visit], plate 5 from Le Mariage à la ville [The Marriage in the City]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14987/thumbnail)
![Le Contrat [The Contract], plate 1, from Le Mariage à la ville [The Marriage in the City]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14963/thumbnail)
![La Visite de la nourrice [The Wet Nurse's Visit], plate 6, from Le Mariage à la ville [The Marriage in the City]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14988/thumbnail)
![La Mariée reconduite chez elle [The Bride Taken Back Home], plate 2, from Le Mariage à la ville [The Marriage in the City]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14964/thumbnail)
![L'Accouchement [Delivery], plate 3 from Le Mariage à la ville [The Marriage in the City]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14976/thumbnail)
![La Chaudeau porté aux mariés [Eggnog Carried to the Newlyweds], plate 3 from Le mariage à la ville [The Marriage in the Country]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14252/thumbnail)
![Les Présents offerts à la mariée [Presents Offered to the Bride], plate 1 from Le Mariage à la campagne [The Marriage in the Country]](/internal/media/dispatcher/14989/thumbnail)
![A Gentleman Seen from Behind, Ascending a Few Steps, from La Noblesse française à l'église [The French Nobility at Church], after Jean de Saint-Igny](/internal/media/dispatcher/68/thumbnail)
![A Gentleman Kneeling in Prayer, from La Noblesse française à l'église [The French Nobility at Church]](/internal/media/dispatcher/66/thumbnail)
![A Gentlewoman Kneeling in Prayer, from La Noblesse française à l'église [The French Nobility at Church], after Jean de Saint-Igny](/internal/media/dispatcher/67/thumbnail)
![A Gentlewoman in a Widow's Costume, from La Noblesse française à l'église [The French Nobility at Church], after Jean de Saint-Igny](/internal/media/dispatcher/69/thumbnail)
![Les Vierges sages méditant les saints mystêres [The Wise Virgins Studying the Sacred Mysteries], from Les Vierges sages et les vierges folles [The Wise and Foolish Virgins]](/internal/media/dispatcher/75/thumbnail)
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