George Boba
Illustration — Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, attributed to Boba, ca. A painter and engraver of the 16th century, known by the name of Maître Georges. He was a native of Rheims, and is said by Karel van Mander to have been a disciple of Frans Floris, and by others of Titian.
Also recorded as Maître Georges · Georges Boba · Maitre Georges
George Boba
George Boba (?) · Public domain
- Born
- 1540. · Reims.
- Died
- 1599.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter and printmaker.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, attributed to Boba, ca. A painter and engraver of the 16th century, known by the name of Maître Georges. He was a native of Rheims, and is said by Karel van Mander to have been a disciple of Frans Floris, and by others of Titian.
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His name in full, or included in a monogram very small, is found on some etchings of landscapes with historical subjects, after Primaticcio; Bartsch gives an account of six of them.
George Boba is recorded with the occupation printmaker. Recorded as painter and printmaker.
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1540
George Boba was born on 1 January 1540.
1599
George Boba died on 1 January 1599.
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- 1.Dictionnaire biographique et critique des peintres et des graveurs. Macmillan. 141 lire en. 1903.
- 2.Jean Adhémar, Georges Boba. peintre du Cardinal de Lorraine, (1560-1600), 1950, tapuscrit conservé à la Bibliothèque Carnegie (Reims).
- 3.Félix Herbert, Les graveurs de l'école de Fontainebleau. Les eaux-fortes anonymes, tome IV, p. 22-24.
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