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Artist:	Callot, Jacques (1592 - 1635)
Title:	La Noblesse
Medium:	Original Callot etching
Image Size:	3 5/8 in x 5 1/2 in (9.2 cm x 14 cm)
Framed Size:	15 3/4 in x 17 1/2 in (40 cm x 44.45 cm)
Edition:	Example of state one of two
Condition:	The work is in excellent condition offering a strong clear impression. Expert corner repairs are in the upper left and lower right corners. They do not affect the image
Gallery Price: Item# 2325	Sorry, this item is sold. Please visit the rest of our Callot fine art collection

Historical Description:
An astute visual historian, Callot (Nancy, 1592- Nancy, 1635) was engaged in the intellectual and political fervor of the early seventeenth century. With experience ranging from studying mathematic with Galileo to witnessing the brutality of the Thirty Years' War, Callot's work expresses a sense of acute observation and emotional experience. Created between 1620-1623, this image is one of eleven prints collected under the title La Noblesse. This work is an example of the first state and offers strong detailed lines. Presented in Elizabethan inspired attire, this noble figure addresses the viewer with an air of shy curiosity. The detail used to depict the woman's face is only further heightened in the rendering of her dress as well as in the village seen in the background. Depicting each voluminous fold of her skirt, bejeweled neck and waist, Callot (Nancy, 1592- Nancy, 1635) impresses upon the viewer the material luxury afforded to the upper class. The artist achieves a tour de force in his rendering of the background image. Displayed in a planer Netherlands inspired format, Callot (Nancy, 1592- Nancy, 1635) painstakingly displays the town gates, steeple and farmers coming to market. As stated by Stephen Longstreet, "the freshness of his style, the charm of his drawings, the pure line of detail made him a kind of historical novelist of the seventeenth century. The artist was still permitted then to reflect the passing scene, report the events and the pageants that made up his world" (Longstreet, 51). The work of Callot (Nancy, 1592- Nancy, 1635) may be compared to Aldegrever, Castiglione, Durer, Hollar, Ostade and Rembrandt. Catalogue Raisonné & COA: It is fully documented and referenced in (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that I will enclose with the sale of the work): 1) Schroder, Thomas. Jacques Callot: Das gesamte Werk Druckgraphik. Munich, Verlag Rogner & Bernhard GMBH. Volume 2 listed as plate 1149. 2) Additional certificate of authenticity provided by Associated American Artists. AUCTION COMPARABLES: Based on our research of recent auction comp for similar work we have found the following: Christie's London: Tuesday, December 05, 2002 $3,161 Galerie Gerda Bassenge: Friday, June 07, 1996 $4,554 Sotheby's London: Tuesday, June 30, 1992 $5,744 Sotheby's New York: Thursday, May 14, 1992 $3,300 About the Framing: This work is displayed in a seventeenth century inspired wood frame with gilt accents. The surface is slightly distressed lending an aged appearance that compliments the style of the print. The image is float mounted on linen mattes and is surrounded by a fine inner fillet.

Historical Description:

An astute visual historian, Callot (Nancy, 1592- Nancy, 1635) was engaged in the intellectual and political fervor of the early seventeenth century. With experience ranging from studying mathematic with Galileo to witnessing the brutality of the Thirty Years' War, Callot's work expresses a sense of acute observation and emotional experience.

Created between 1620-1623, this image is one of eleven prints collected under the title La Noblesse. This work is an example of the first state and offers strong detailed lines.

Presented in Elizabethan inspired attire, this noble figure addresses the viewer with an air of shy curiosity. The detail used to depict the woman's face is only further heightened in the rendering of her dress as well as in the village seen in the background. Depicting each voluminous fold of her skirt, bejeweled neck and waist, Callot (Nancy, 1592- Nancy, 1635) impresses upon the viewer the material luxury afforded to the upper class. The artist achieves a tour de force in his rendering of the background image.

Displayed in a planer Netherlands inspired format, Callot (Nancy, 1592- Nancy, 1635) painstakingly displays the town gates, steeple and farmers coming to market. As stated by Stephen Longstreet, "the freshness of his style, the charm of his drawings, the pure line of detail made him a kind of historical novelist of the seventeenth century. The artist was still permitted then to reflect the passing scene, report the events and the pageants that made up his world" (Longstreet, 51).

The work of Callot (Nancy, 1592- Nancy, 1635) may be compared to Aldegrever, Castiglione, Durer, Hollar, Ostade and Rembrandt.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
It is fully documented and referenced in (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that I will enclose with the sale of the work):

1) Schroder, Thomas. Jacques Callot: Das gesamte Werk Druckgraphik. Munich, Verlag Rogner & Bernhard GMBH. Volume 2 listed as plate 1149.

2) Additional certificate of authenticity provided by Associated American Artists.

AUCTION COMPARABLES:

Based on our research of recent auction comp for similar work we have found the following:

Christie's London: Tuesday, December 05, 2002 $3,161

Galerie Gerda Bassenge: Friday, June 07, 1996 $4,554

Sotheby's London: Tuesday, June 30, 1992 $5,744

Sotheby's New York: Thursday, May 14, 1992 $3,300

About the Framing:
This work is displayed in a seventeenth century inspired wood frame with gilt accents. The surface is slightly distressed lending an aged appearance that compliments the style of the print. The image is float mounted on linen mattes and is surrounded by a fine inner fillet.

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Biography of Jacques Callot

French engraver and draughtsman. Jacques Callot went to Italy when he was in his teens and, working in Rome and then in Florence at the court of the Grand Duke Cosimc II (1590-1621), he learned to combine the sophisticated techniques and exaggerations of late Mannerism with witty and acute observation into a brilliantly expressive idiom. Returning to France in 1621 he became one of the chief exponents of the bizarre and grotesque which came into vogue in the reign of Louis XIII (1601-43). Most of the remainder of his career was spent in his native Nancy, but he also worked in Paris and the Low Countries. He made a specialty of beggars and deformities, characters from the picaresque novel and the Italian commedia dell'arte. In this respect he comes close to Bellange, also active in Nancy, but Callot's style was more realistic. His last great work, the series of etchings entitled the Grandes Miséres de la Guerre followed the invasion of Lorraine by Car Richelieu in 1633, and is a harrowing depiction the atrocities of war; its themes and imagery were used as a source by Goya. His output was prodigious; more than a thousand Callot etchings and drawings by him are extant, and some of his plates are large, featuring scores of brilliantly arranged figures. Jacques Callot was one of the greatest of all etchers and one of the first major creative artists to work exclusively in the graphic arts.