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Two Grotesque Figures
1675
(Artist) French Jacques Callot (Artist) French, 1592-1635
Brush and black ink, with border of red chalk, on buff laid paper
Sheet: 3 5/16 × 6 7/16 inches (8.4 × 16.4 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR38
Public Domain
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Inscribed in black ink, upper right of left grotesque: 17 Upper right of right grotesque: 15 Lower left center of right grotesque: 1675
Provenance
May 1894, J. Peoli Sale, no. 97;James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 316, no. A64.
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French; after Jacques Callot, Two Grotesque Figures, 1675, brush and black ink, with border of red chalk, on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR38.
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