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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>> on the print in ink lower right <<13>>
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 turned to right, woman seen from behind with right hand on hip and left arm outstretched, and man with cape seen from behind. 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.