The contemporary engravings of Abraham Bosse and Callot faithfully portray the fashions of this reign. In the Prodigal Son, of Abraham Bosse, the mother, waiting his return, holds out to her repentant boy a collar trimmed with the richest point. The Foolish Virgins weep in lace-trimmed handkerchiefs, and the table-cloth of the rich man, as well as his dinner-napkins, are similarly adorned. Again, the Accouchée recovers in a cap of Italian point under a coverlet of the same. At the Retour de Baptême, point adorns the christening-dress of the child and the surplice of the priest.
When, in 1615, Louis XIII. married Anne of Austria, the collerettes of the Queen-Mother were discarded—the reign of Italy was at an end—all was now à l'éspagnole and the court of Castile.
Fig. 68.
Lace Rose and Garter.—(After Abraham Bosse.)
The prodigality of the nobles[[428]] having called down royal ordinances on their heads,[[429]] these new edicts bring forth fresh satires, in which the author deplores the prohibition of cut-work and lace:—
"Ces points couppez, passemens et dentelles,
Las! que venaient de l'Isle et de Bruxelles,
Sont maintenant descriez, avilis,
Et sans faveur gisent ensevelis;"[[430]]