Jacques CallotFrench, 1592–1635Heilige Helena
May one see it?
Unknown
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
In the museum's own words — in Dutch
De Heilige Helena, staand naast een kruis, op een terras of bordes met klassieke architectuur. Om haar heen staan en vliegen engelen. Onder de voorstelling een onderschrift in Latijn. Deze prent is onderdeel van (de tweede staat van) een serie van 29 voorstellingen van schilderijen en sculpturen in kerken te Rome, genummerd 1-16 en 1-13. (De eerste staat van deze serie, waarin de prenten ongenummerd zijn, behelst ook een titelprent).
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- RP-P-OB-4853
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
Meanwhile, in the life of Jacques Callot
The whole life1608
Runs away from home to Rome
Secretly from his parents Jacques sets out on foot for Rome — according to legend, with wandering Romani; by one account he ran away twice and twice came back at his father’s demand, until his father finally consented to his studying in Italy.
1608 · Workplace
Nancy
1608–1611 · Workplace
Rome
1611
Studies etching with Tempesta in Florence
Having studied burin engraving in Rome with Philippe Thomassin, Callot moves to Florence, where he works with Antonio Tempesta, who teaches him the technique of line etching (by other accounts, he lived in Florence from 1612).
1611–1621 · Workplace
Florence
1612
Joins the workshop of Giulio Parigi
In Florence Callot also studies with the painter and engraver Remigio Cantagallina, and in 1612 joins the workshop of Giulio Parigi; he later often collaborates with both, coming under Parigi’s influence.
