Jacques CallotFrench, 1592–1635Frontispiece, from Various Scenes Designed in Florence
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About the work
The authorship of this print remains disputed, with scholars attributing the landscape either to Jacques Callot or his student, François Collignon. What is uncontested about the piece is the high quality of the etching, done in soft ground to give the image a gentle, atmospheric feel. Callot skillfully etched in a style that replicated pen-strokes, aided by the échoppe, a needle of his own invention that enabled him to etch lines that swelled and thinned like an engraver’s. Here, Callot’s name in the banner and the name of the publisher were likely engraved, but the landscape and frame are purely etched.
Art Institute of ChicagoCC BY 4.0
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- Accession number
- 1919.2482
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- Art Institute of Chicago
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Meanwhile, in the life of Jacques Callot
The whole life1621–1635 · Workplace
Nancy
1629–1630
Declines to serve Louis XIII
King Louis XIII of France offers Callot a place at his court, but the artist declines; by one account, as a patriot of Lorraine he could not forgive the king for the devastation of his homeland by French troops.
1629–1630
Lives and works in Paris
From 1629 Callot lives and works in Paris, where his clients include publishers, mostly Parisian; overall he is commissioned by the courts of Lorraine, France and Spain.
c. 1630
Meets Abraham Bosse
The meeting of the Parisian Abraham Bosse with Callot around 1630 makes Bosse his follower: he will later spread the master’s technical innovations across Europe in the first published manual of etching, translated into several languages.
