Saint Basil Celebrating the Mass, Jacques Callot, 1608/1611
Jacques Callot, portraitJacques CallotFrench, 1592–1635

Saint Basil Celebrating the Mass

1608/1611 · Print

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Where is “Saint Basil Celebrating the Mass” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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1969.15.277

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In the life of Jacques Callot

The whole life
  1. 1608

    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.

  2. 1608 · Workplace

    Nancy

  3. 1608–1611 · Workplace

    Rome

  4. 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).

  5. 1611–1621 · Workplace

    Florence

  6. 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.

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