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Jacques Callot
Les Fantaisies
about 1635

$1,200.00

Artist: Jacques Callot (1592-1635)
Title: from a suite of fourteen prints known as Les Fantaisies
Date: about 1635
School: French, XVIIth-century
Medium: etching
Dimensions: 60 x 80mm
Watermark:  none
Inscriptions/marks: in the plate lower centre <<Cum Priuile Reg. Israel excudit>>
Condition: good condition on laid paper from the first edition published by Israël Henriet, trimmed
Description: Three small figures standing on white ground; from left to right, man with plumed hat and cape, turned to right, woman with plumed hat, facing front, with left hand on stomach and right hand on hip, and man with cape and plumed hat, facing front. From a set of fourteen etchings, each depicting three figures on a white ground; the set was executed late 1633 according to Lieure, and in 1634 according to Meaume, and published in 1635 by Henriet.