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The Fair at Impruneta

1620
(French, 1592–1635)
Measurements
Sheet: 43.2 x 67.6 cm (17 x 26 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Catalogue raisonné
Lieure (2) II.14.361
State
III/VI
Public Domain
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Callot's innovative formulas and techniques for etching included a process of stepped acid baths to achieve greater tonal variation from foreground to background.

Description

The annual fair held in Impruneta, a commune in Florence, Italy, was an opportunity for rural and urban communities to comingle and partake in commerce, socializing, and festivity. Jacques Callot filled the panorama with 1,138 people, 45 horses, 67 donkeys, and 137 dogs. Prominent in the left foreground is a vendor of tableware patronized by a mix of social classes, selling footed tazzas (shallow cups mounted on stems) and goblets. Pick-pocketing, fighting, snake-charming, and the punishment of a criminal by torture also occur. Callot dedicated this print to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, for whom the fair signified a healthy Florentine economy.
A horizontally oriented etching in fine black ink on beige paper depicts a sprawling town square. A church with a tall bell tower overlooks a plaza dense with tents and hundreds of tiny figures. Foreground groups of people with light skin tones walk and ride horses. A stone tower frames the left edge, while a gnarled tree stands on the right. Latin text and a coat of arms line the bottom.

The Fair at Impruneta

1620

Jacques Callot

(French, 1592–1635)
France, 17th century

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