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Jacques Callot

The Holy Trinity in the Tree of Life Adored by Franciscans, c. 1625

Not on View

Medium

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

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.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Ternois 1962, no. 423

Accession Number

1968.18.16

Artists / Makers

Jacques Callot (artist) French, 1592 - 1635

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Inscription

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

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

Ingram, Bruce Stirling, Sir
Schab Gallery, Inc., William H.

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, 1975: 163, 189-190 no. 155.

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.