Description: --> Four Centuries of the world's finest artists from our collection to yours --> Thank you for visiting... Click here for HOT DEALS | Click here for our NO RESERVE AUCTIONS Please feel free to ask any questions you might have about this work and we will answer promptly.International bidders are always welcome to bid and we combine shipping on all orders. --> Artist: Jacques Callot (French, c. 1592 – 1635) Title: Scaramucia & Fricasso, from Balli di Sfessania Medium: Antique engraving on japon paper after the original created in 1622. Year: c. 1920 Edition: Limited edition of only 500 impressions.Condition: ExcellentDimensions: Image 3 1/4 inches x 4 1/8 inches. Framed dimensions: Approximately 12 x 13 inches. Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials. Additional Information: This is not a modern print. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp. It is rare and hard to find. Extra Information: Grotesque dancers in costumes wearing hats and masks with swords. "Balli di sfessania" represents performers in pairs, viewed in grotesque or comical postures. Callot succeeded in depicting the dynamic and playful nature of these actors by capturing their exaggerated gestures as well as the great variety of their costumes and accessories. Artist Biography:Jacques Callot was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine. He is an important person in the development of the old master print. He made more than 1,400 etchings that chronicled the life of his period, featuring soldiers, clowns, drunkards, Gypsies, beggars, as well as court life. He also etched many religious and military images, and many prints featured extensive landscapes in their background. Callot’s career was divided into an Italian period (c. 1609–21) and a Lorraine (France) period (from 1621 until his death). He learned the technique of engraving under Philippe Thomassin in Rome. About 1612 he went to Florence. At that time Medici patronage expended itself almost exclusively in feste, quasi-dramatic pageants, sometimes dealing in allegorical subjects, and Callot was employed to make pictorial records of these mannered, sophisticated entertainments. He succeeded in evolving a naturalistic style while preserving the artificiality of the occasion, organizing a composition as if it were a stage setting and reducing the figures to a tiny scale, each one indicated by the fewest possible strokes. This required a very fine etching technique. His breadth of observation, his lively figure style, and his skill in assembling a large, jostling crowd secured for his etchings a lasting popular influence all over Europe. Callot also had a genius for caricature and the grotesque. His series of plates of single or dual figures—for example, the Balli di Sfessania (“Dance of Sfessania”), the Caprices of Various Figures, and the Hunchbacks—are witty and picturesque and show a rare eye for factual detail. With a few exceptions, the subject matter of the etchings of the Lorraine period is less frivolous, and Callot was hardly employed at all by the court at Nancy. He illustrated sacred books, made a series of plates of the Apostles, and visited Paris to etch animated maps of the sieges of La Rochelle and the Île de Ré. In his last great series of etchings, the “small” (1632) and the “large” (1633) The Miseries and Misfortunes of War, he brought his documentary genius to bear on the atrocities of the Thirty Years’ War. Callot is also well known for his landscape drawings in line and wash and for his quick figure studies in chalk. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and is Fully Guaranteed to be Certified as Described Framing Any framing included in a listing is double matted and framed in a solid wood moulding. We can also frame any pieces not listed as such. Please contact us for pricing. We are usually half the price of a regular framer. Shipping Packages are shipped the next business day after confirmed payment is received. If you are making multiple purchases, please request an invoice so that we may combine shipping charges for you. Guarantee We guarantee all our listings to be 100% as described Returns Returns are accepted up to fourteen days after receiving your purchase. Buyer accepts responsibility for any additional shipping charges. | Click here for HOT DEALS | Click here for our NO RESERVE AUCTIONS |
Price: 254 USD
Location: Cape Coral, Florida
End Time: 2025-01-03T03:15:04.000Z
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Size: Small (up to 12in.)
Artist: Jacques Callot
Production Technique: Engraving
Framing: Framed
Material: Engraving
Type: Print
Features: Matted, Framed, Limited Edition
Subject: History, Famous Artist
Print Type: Engraving
Edition Type: Limited Edition
Edition Size: 500
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Date of Creation: 1900-1949
