Study of Four Horsemen

1628 or before

Jacques Callot

Associated Names
Jacques Callot

Artist, French, 1592 - 1635

This is a drawing of horses with mounted riders. The drawing shows several horses and riders in different poses and perspectives, depicted with delicate lines and shading. The background is plain.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 17.3 x 25.5 cm (6 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1961.17.51

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ternois 1962, no. 874

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

J.D. Lempereur, Paris; (sale, Paris, 1773, no. 696 ?). Junius S. Morgan, Princeton and Paris [1867-1932]; ( Dr. John Audley Harvey (Lugt 1409); Dr. Alfred Rossieux, Vevey, Switzerland [1879-1958]; (sale, Bern, Kornfeld and Klipstein, 7 February 1957); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1961.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1957

  • Jacques Callot, 1592-1635, Los Angeles County Museum, 1957, no. 360, repro.

1958

  • Van Clouet tot Matisse. Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 1958-1959: no. 18, pl. 15a.

1959

  • French Drawings from American Collections, Clouet to Matisse. Metropilitan Museum of Art, New York, 1959: no. 18.

1963

  • Jacques Callot: a selection of prints from the collections of Rudolf L. Baumfeld and Lessing J. Rosenwald, NGA, 1963, no. 46.

1967

  • Friends Collect, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1967.

1970

  • Jacques Callot, 1592-1635, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1970, no. 72, repro.

1975

  • Jacques Callot: Prints and Related Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1975, no. 179, repro.

1989

  • From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1989, no. 13.

Bibliography

1962

  • Ternois, Daniel. Jacques Callot, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessine. Paris, 1962: no. 423.

1969

  • Lieure 1969, I: 121; II: pl. LXXXV, fig. 185.

Inscriptions

recto: at upper left, in brown ink: 11; verso: in later hand, across bottom: Desegni D[i?] Callot

Markings

verso: Dr. Alfred Rossier (Lugt 4713)

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64580100

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