Lot n° 86
Estimation :
2000 - 3000
EUR
CALLOT Jacques (1592-1635) - Lot 86
CALLOT Jacques (1592-1635)
Le Combat à la barrière : Suite complète des dix planches et deux gravures surnuméraires
Etching. Very fine proofs cut to the subject (L.576, 577,578, 585,586), or with margin fillets or small margins (small edge losses, tiny accidents to L.577, 578, 583; traces of marked folds to L.577; some old vertical folds to L.583; L.585 slight thinning on irregular edges; small thinning to L. 586 finely lined).
(Lieure 575 II/III, 576, 577, 578 I/II, 579 to 582, 583 II/II, 584, 585, 586 I/II before the plate was split into six parts)
Dimensions: Height : 15.7 ; Width : 11cm - Height. 14.9; Width 22cm - Height 14.7; Width 21.8cm - Height 15; Width 24cm - Height 7; Width 23.2cm - Height 15; Width 35.6cm
According to J.Lieure's catalog, the set represents the festival floats and the room where the tournament took place, in the ducal palace in Nancy. These festivities took place on February 14, 1627, in honor of the Duchesse de Chevreuse, and Callot's prints were used to illustrate the account published by H. Humbert.
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