Ce que l’on fait dire à l’image : interprétations, fausses pistes et lectures orientées L’exemple d’un dessin de théâtre autrefois attribué à Abraham Bosse

There are few pictures of French stage in the 17th century. One of them is a famous drawing wrongly attributed for a long time to Abraham Bosse. It used to be given as an evidence of smallness and darkness of contemporary stages. This misinterpretation is the result of both a lack of knowledge about iconographic codes and an ideological bias that makes see this theatre as a supposedly archaic theatre.