Past Exhibition

Jacques Callot

The image shows a coastal scene with an elevated viewpoint. The horizon is in the center where the sea meets land and sky. There are detailed etched lines depicting swirling clouds and rocky formations creating movement and texture. The color palette is black ink on a cream background. Boats are in the water, some with sails, others rowboats. More ships are further out at sea. Large rock formations with possible fortifications or ruins are on the right. A small group of people is by the water. The scene conveys motion in the sea and sky against the solidity of the rocky structures.
Jacques Callot, The Naval Battle, probably c. 1630, etching on laid paper, R.L. Baumfeld Collection, 1969.15.45

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    Ground Floor, Central Gallery
The image shows a coastal scene with an elevated viewpoint. The horizon is in the center where the sea meets land and sky. There are detailed etched lines depicting swirling clouds and rocky formations creating movement and texture. The color palette is black ink on a cream background. Boats are in the water, some with sails, others rowboats. More ships are further out at sea. Large rock formations with possible fortifications or ruins are on the right. A small group of people is by the water. The scene conveys motion in the sea and sky against the solidity of the rocky structures.
Jacques Callot, The Naval Battle, probably c. 1630, etching on laid paper, R.L. Baumfeld Collection, 1969.15.45

Overview: 154 fine impressions of Callot's extensive work were selected from the Baumfeld and Rosenwald collections. The exhibition celebrated the recent gift to the Gallery of the collection of Rudolf L. Baumfeld of Los Angeles, who had assembled nearly 1,200 of the 1,428 known prints by Callot. Lessing J.Rosenwald wrote the preface to the catalogue.

Attendance: 21,778

Catalog: Jacques Callot: A Selection of Prints from the Collections of Rudolf L. Baumfeld and Lessing J. Rosenwald, by Elizabeth Mongan. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1963.

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