The Holy Trinity in the Tree of Life Adored by Franciscans

c. 1625

Jacques Callot

Artist, French, 1592 - 1635

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk on laid paper with later framing line in brown ink

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 20.3 x 19.2 cm (8 x 7 9/16 in.)
    support: 28.7 x 25.8 cm (11 5/16 x 10 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1968.18.16

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ternois 1962, no. 423


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Salamon Gautier, (Lugt 2978), Amsterdam and Paris; Sir Bruce Ingram [1877-1962] (Lugt Supp. 1405a), Chesham, England; C. Robert Rudolf, London; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 21 May 1963, lot 47); (William H. Schab, New York); purchased by NGA, 1968.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1962

  • Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C. R. Rudolf. British Arts Council, 1962: no. 169.

1964

  • A Distinguished Collection of Important Original Etchings, Engravings & Woodcuts...Drawings by Great Old & Modern Masters. William H. Schab Gallery, New York, catalogue 36, probably 1964, no. 99

1968

  • A Distinguished Collection.... Cat. 42 William Schab Gallery, New York, probably 1968, no. 147.

1970

  • Jacques Callot, 1592-1635, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1970, no. 64, repro.

1975

  • Jacques Callot: Prints and Related Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1975, no. 155, repro.

1989

  • From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1989, no. 12.

1992

  • Jacques Callot 1591-1635. Musée Historique Lorrain, Nancy, 1992: no. 629.

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 48-49, 276, no. 15 (color).

Bibliography

1962

  • Ternois, Daniel. Jacques Callot, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessine. Paris, 1962.

1964

  • Fine Prints and Drawings by Old and Modern Masters, William H. Schab Gallery, New York, n.d. (Catalogue 36, c. 1964): 108, no. 99.

1968

  • Great Old Master Prints & Drawings 1500-1800 from Distinguished Collections, William H. Schab Gallery, New York, n.d. (Catalogue 42, c. 1968]): 116, no. 147.

1990

  • McCullagh, Suzanne. "Cleveland, Cambridge, and Ottawa: Seventeenth Century French Drawings." The Burlington Magazine CXXXII (1990): 234-35, no. 85.

Inscriptions

in later hand, lower center on blue mount: Go. Callot.; on verso at upper left: N 27 (?), partially trimmed; in red ink below that, in another hand 0.No 4; in graphite below that, diagonally to the right: 2/3; in graphtie at center: Callot; in graphite below that, very small and in a different hand: 110; in pen and brown ink below that, in another hand; From this drawing Their is a print; in graphite at lower left: 20; in graphite at lower center: 268 / WS 3299 / DBANM

Watermarks

double "C"

Wikidata ID

Q64580102


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