Studies of Horses [recto], c. 1612

Not on View

Medium

pen and iron gall ink on laid paper, with later framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

Overall: 23.2 x 30.5 cm (9 1/8 x 12 in.)
support: 26.7 x 33.9 cm (10 1/2 x 13 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Ternois 1973, no. 7

Accession Number

1981.51.1.a

Artists / Makers

Jacques Callot (artist) French, 1592 - 1635

Antonio Tempesta (artist after) Florentine, 1555 - 1630

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left: 25 (or 29?) I.B.; at lower left: 265/14 next to a tau cross by the number 3; above that, upside down, 3; at lower right, 234(?)

Provenance

17th-century armorial stamp, Florence (Lugt 2736, unidentified). John Thane [1744-1818], London (Lugt 1544); (sale, London, 25-26 March 1819, lot 289?). J.R. Jeudwine, London, 1966; David Rust, Washington, 1968; purchased by NGA, 1981.

Associated Names

Rust, David E.
Thane, John

Exhibition History

1966: Old Master Drawings (Jeudwine coll). Alpine Club Gallery, London, 1966: no. 15.

1992: Jacques Callot 1592-1635. Musee Historique Lorrain, Nancy, 1992: no. 43.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 44-45, 276, no. 13 (color; recto and verso).

Bibliography

1973: Ternois, Daniel. "Callot et son temps; dix ans de recherches (1962-1972)." Le Pays Lorrain LIV, no. 4 (1973): 218, 219 n. 30, 240, suppl. no. 7, reprod. 216-217, figs. 5, 6.

1999: Ternois, Daniel. Jacques Callot, Catalogue de son oeuvre dessiné. Supplément (1962-1998). Paris, 1999, 22, S.1466, repro. p. 61.

2010: Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 67.