About the Artwork
Portrait of Jacques Callot
no date
Aoemans (Artist) French I. Meussens (Publisher) French
Engraving in ink on laid paper
Plate: 6 1/4 × 4 3/8 inches (15.9 × 11.1 cm) Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 1/2 inches (16.8 × 11.4 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S23
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, in plate, following inscription: Masne delin. Aoemans Sculpsit. I Meussens execudit.
Inscribed, in plate, below image: IACQ CALLOT | Gentilhomme lorainais, il fut ne en ville de Nanci, en l'an 1594 de son commencement estoit graveur, mais | vouant qu il ne scauroit faire promtement cette science, il sadonnoit a travailler a l eau fort, en quelle il | sa rendu si extreme qu'il est un merveille de le voir, on cognoit son grand esprit per ses oeuvres, come | la grande marche de Florence, les miseres de la guerre, et quantites des autres. il mourut en la ville de sa | naissance, l'an 1635, le 27me de mars. Inscribed, in brown ink, preceeding inscription, center bottom margin: 113
Marked, stamp in black ink, lower right corner of sheet: S.B'F
Provenance
December 1885, Kissam sale.S.B'F.
Mrs. James E. Scripps [Harriet J.];
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Aoemans, Portrait of Jacques Callot, no date, engraving in ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S23.
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