Abraham Bump

Abraham Bump , born with Turns in 1604 and died in Paris in 1676, member of the royal Academy of painting and sculpture, was one of best the engraver S French of the 17th century. Theorist of engraving, proselyte of the projective methods of Girard Desargues, his work is an emblem of the Baroque art French.

Biography

Abraham Bosse was the son Louis Bosse, tailor of German origin having immigrant with Tours, and of Marie Martinet. It made its training near the engraver Melchior Tavernier, undoubtedly starting from 1620. Its first engravings, inspired of Lorraine the Jacques Bellange, go back to 1622. Around 1630, it meets the aquafortist Jacques Callot, of passage to Paris, and is subject to without any doubt its influence (use of the varnished hard , more demanding technically, but allowing layouts plus Nets). He marries Catherine Sarrabat in Tours in 1632.

The meeting with Desargues

The architect Girard Desargues had opened in Paris a course deprived to teach with the craftsmen (stone masons, carpenters, engravers, manufacturer of instruments) the applications of his perspective technique of linear, which implicitly introduces (by the fact that the reducing parallels contribute ad infinitum) and for the first time the idea of a Point ad infinitum. Bump attends this institution starting from 1641, and consequently becomes the most active propagandist and most influential of the Lyons architect. Nonglad to use the Arguesian prospect in its engravings, it publishes a complete series of treaties on this multiform technique and its applications: universal manner of Mr. of the Lyonnois Wire-drawers to pose the axle & to place the hours & other things at the dials at the Sun , practice of the feature with proof of Mr. of the Lyonnois Wire-drawers for the cut of the stones in Architecture (1643), universal Manner of Mr. of the Wire-drawers to practice the prospect per small-foot like the géométral (1648), Average universal to practice the prospect on the tables or surfaces irregular. (1653). Among the superb boards which illustrate these treaties, that entitled '' Perspecteurs '' is at this point suggestive of the geometrical step which it is today a “traditional” illustration of the editions of Descartes, or books of geometry.

The academic fight

Desargues had had to fight hard to make admit its methods near the corporations and of the architects, and Bump, while relaying it on the field of the drawing and painting, itself will become target of a polemic. When in 1648 Mazarin founds a royal Académie of painting and sculpture, the theorist Abraham Bosse has his place quite naturally there. But as from 1651, an opposition of method on the finality of the prospect with Charles Le Brun and her devoted henchmen involves it in a sour polemic, which leads finally to its exclusion of the royal institution in 1661. Bump then founds a private school to continue the teaching of the Arguesian methods there.

The Brown one and Huret defended the idea of a “beautiful ideal” which can be work only own “genius” and imagination of the artist; idea to which Bump, plus naturalist and more technician, did not adhere.

The scientific engraver

During the first part of its career, Bosse treated especially scenes of kind, even of religious topics on the occasion. Wire of tailor, it was also impassioned by the costumes, and one can at that time look at his graphic production as a form of “Réclame” before the hour for the family production.

The work which it had carried out at Desargues it however had made known of a growing number of authors and, after the death of Desargues, its graphic production relates to primarily the illustration of scientific works. It continued also its didactic work on graphic arts and the prospect.

Works

the garden of the Nobility Francoise (1629)
Cries of Paris (Ca 1630)
the guards françoises (1632)
the marriage at the city, the marriage in the countryside (1633)
the trades (1635?)
Series of boards for the ARIANE (1639)
universal manner of Mr. of the Lyonnois Wire-drawers to pose the axle & to place the hours & other things at the dials at the Sun (1643)
practice of the feature at proof of Mr. of the Lyonnois Wire-drawers for the cut of the stones in Architecture to practice the prospect (1643)
Treated manners of engraving in the soft face on the airin by the means of the etchings… (1645)
universal Manner of Mr. of the Wire-drawers to practice the prospect per small-foot like the géométral… (1648)
Average universal to practice the prospect on the tables or surfaces irregular… (1653)
the very famous frontispiece of the Léviathan of Thomas Hobbes (1651) is the work of Abraham Bosse
Série of boards for the Virgin or delivered France (1656)
Of the orders of the columns (1664)
Traité practices géométrales and of prospect (1665)

References

S. Join-Lambert, J. - P. Manceau, Abraham Bump, engraver and sçavant (1995), CRDP of the area Centers,
S. Join-Lambert, Mr. Préaud and Al, Abraham Bosse, erudite engraver (2004), BNF-Museum of the Art schools de Tours, diffusion ED. threshold.
Dhombres, Sakharovitch and Al, Desargues in its time (1994), libr. Albert Blanchard, Paris

External bonds

Abraham Bump in Artcyclopedia

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