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Title-Page to "The Joys of Repose"

(French, about 1605–about 1663)
(Dutch, about 1564–1651)
(French, about 1603–1657)
about 1630-1660
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 11 x 15.6 cm (4 5/16 x 6 1/8 in.)(trimmed within the platemark, with corners cut off)
Credit LineBequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession numberB1088.1
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsEngraved in the plate, a four-line poem, "Comme quand un mal nous possedde . . ."
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock, Boston, Paris (1826-1899); his bequest to the MFA June 12, 1900