Jacques Callot

Reference: S39638
Author Michel LASNE
Year: 1629
Measures: 111 x 160 mm
€150.00

Reference: S39638
Author Michel LASNE
Year: 1629
Measures: 111 x 160 mm
€150.00

Description

Bulino, 1629, in ottimo stato di conservazione.

Portrait of Jacques Callot, bust-length, turned to the left, in oval cartouche with grotesque mask in the upper part; coat of arms with stars in the lower part.

Lettered with production detail: “MLasne delineavit et fecit”, “Israel amicus optimus excudit”, title, and three-lines Latin text: “En Miraculum Artis, et Nature...”.

This portrait is known in two versions in which Callot faces in either direction, both were published by Henriet in 1629.

The original drawing by Lasne is in the Museum at Nancy.

Literature

Bibliografia: Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes, Paris, 1930, 263.II.

Michel LASNE (Caen, 1590 – Parigi, 4 dicembre 1667)

French engraver. He was a member of the Corporazione di San Luca di Anversa in 1617-1618 and probably worked under Pieter Paul Rubens and Antoon van Dyck. In 1633 he became the official engraver of King Louis XIII of France.

Literature

Bibliografia: Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes, Paris, 1930, 263.II.

Michel LASNE (Caen, 1590 – Parigi, 4 dicembre 1667)

French engraver. He was a member of the Corporazione di San Luca di Anversa in 1617-1618 and probably worked under Pieter Paul Rubens and Antoon van Dyck. In 1633 he became the official engraver of King Louis XIII of France.