Lux Claustri. La lumière du Cloître/La vie de la Mère de Dieu représentée par des emblèmes
1646
Jacques Callot
Artist, French, 1592 - 1635
Artwork overview
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Medium
set of two volumes bound together, each with an etched title-page and 26 etched emblems
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 19.37 × 14.61 × 1.3 cm (7 5/8 × 5 3/4 × 1/2 in.)
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Accession Number
2003.80.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lieure, nos. 626-652, State ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jean Furstenberg (bookplate), (b. 1890). (Paul Prouté, Paris, catalogue "Delacroix", 2003, 88, no. 44); purchased 2003 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
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, nos. 626-652, State ii/ii.
Inscriptions
Each emblem is numbered twice in Arabic numerals 2-27: upper left within the plate and upper right outside the plate; the number 1 has been inscribed in pen and black ink on the title plate; the number 25 printed upper right outside the image has been changed in pen and black ink to 28; the number 25 is inscribed in pen and black ink above this altered number, presumably a correction by a later hand; on upper spine in brown ink: LUX / CLAVS / TRI; in graphite an encircled V and DL0961 also encircled