Maker: Bosse, Abraham

Year: 1650 c.

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Manufacturing Location: Paris, France

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Collection: Wellcome Images

Accession #: 26944i

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Wellcome Library, London. Published F.L.D. Ciartres Paris (chez Mel.or Tavernier; demeurant en l'Isle du Palais, à la Sphere).

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A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Series: The five senses (Abraham Bosse)
Lettering: Visus. La veue. Quod mens est animo quod sol clarissimus orbi,/ Est mea cervici cara pupilla tuæ/ Qui cupit humanæ simulacrum cernere mentis,/ Virtutum videat me scelerumque ducem. A. Bosse in et fe ...
Lettering continues: "Il n'est rien de pareil sur la terre ou sur l'onde/ Aux charmes que la veue a dans ses facultez/ Puis que c'est par les yeux qu'on voit tant de beautez,/ Et que l'astre du iour est lœil de tout le monde"
Summary: A large screen takes up the centre of the image; a pair of slippers lie before it. On the wall behind the mirror is a painting with no image. The stool on the right bears a coat and an upturned wig.

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