The Carrying of the Cross

c. 1618

Jacques Callot

Artist, French, 1592 - 1635

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    R.L. Baumfeld Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 11.6 × 21.5 cm (4 9/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1969.15.53

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lieure, no. 286, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1963

  • Jacques Callot: a selection of prints from the collections of Rudolf L. Baumfeld and Lessing J. Rosenwald, NGA, 1963, no. 15f.

1975

  • Jacques Callot: Prints and Related Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1975, no. 168, repro.

Bibliography

1860

  • Meaume 17.

1924

  • Lieure, J. Jacques Callot. 5 vols. Paris: Editions de la Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1924-1927. Reprint. 8 vols. New York: Collectors' Editions, 1969.

1975

  • Russell 1975, 168.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Jac. Callot in. et Fe; lower center in plate: Quid Simon huic tentas onerj succedere, solus / Ille potest tantae pondera ferre crucis (O Simon, why are you tr

Wikidata ID

Q65509049

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