CALLOT, Jacques (1592-1635). Lot of five etchings. 17th cent...
CALLOT, Jacques (1592-1635). Lot of five etchings. 17th century.
Interesting group of five original etchings by Jacques Callot, comprising: Deux combats ou rencontres de cavalerie, a pair consisting of La rencontre à l'épée and La rencontre au pistolet, inscribed Callot fecit and Israel excudit , conceived as pendants and subsequently associated with the Exercices militaires; Cap. Bombardon et Cap. Grillo, plate 13 from the celebrated Balli di Sfessania, c. 1621-1622, a series of 24 plates conceived during Callot's Italian period, depicting two grotesque figures from the Commedia dell'Arte in the foreground with a crowd of spectators beyond; Portrait du prince de Phalsbourg, a large equestrian portrait of Louis de Lorraine-Guise (1588-1631), Prince of Phalsbourg and Lixheim, shown in armour on a rearing horse, with a battle scene in the background, coat of arms and dedicatory inscription in the lower margin; and Les mourants sur le bord des routes, 1633, plate 16 from Les Grandes Misères de la Guerre, one of the images from Callot's celebrated cycle devoted to the consequences of the Thirty Years' War, with French verses by Michel de Marolles (1600-1681) in the lower margin.
5 etchings on laid paper, various sizes. (6)
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CALLOT, Jacques (1592-1635). Lot of five etchings. 17th century.
Interesting group of five original etchings by Jacques Callot, comprising: Deux combats ou rencontres de cavalerie, a pair consisting of La rencontre à l'épée and La rencontre au pistolet, inscribed Callot fecit and Israel excudit , conceived as pendants and subsequently associated with the Exercices militaires; Cap. Bombardon et Cap. Grillo, plate 13 from the celebrated Balli di Sfessania, c. 1621-1622, a series of 24 plates conceived during Callot's Italian period, depicting two grotesque figures from the Commedia dell'Arte in the foreground with a crowd of spectators beyond; Portrait du prince de Phalsbourg, a large equestrian portrait of Louis de Lorraine-Guise (1588-1631), Prince of Phalsbourg and Lixheim, shown in armour on a rearing horse, with a battle scene in the background, coat of arms and dedicatory inscription in the lower margin; and Les mourants sur le bord des routes, 1633, plate 16 from Les Grandes Misères de la Guerre, one of the images from Callot's celebrated cycle devoted to the consequences of the Thirty Years' War, with French verses by Michel de Marolles (1600-1681) in the lower margin.
5 etchings on laid paper, various sizes. (6)
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