The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 31, 2023

The Palace Gardens at Nancy

1625

Jacques Callot

(French, 1592–1635)

France, 17th century

Etching

Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection by exchange 1965.232

Catalogue raisonné: Lieure (2) II.64.566

State: I/II

Location

not on view

Description

Callot's etching shows the appearance of the garden at the ducal palace at Nancy in 1625. Female figures carrying baskets on their heads are pictured so that Bellange's etchings of gardeners balancing ornate, fanciful containers must have been based on reality.

Provenance
Robert Hartshorne ?
?Robert Hartshorne
Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).

Stefano Della Bella; Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione; Jacques Bellange; Jacques Callot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 7-July 13, 1980).

Promenades, Pageants, Processions, and Pilgrimages. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 25, 1981-January 3, 1982).

Jacques Bellange: 17th-Century Printmaker of Lorraine. The British Museum (February 2-May 5, 1997); Carnegie Museum of Art (organizer) (June 7-August 3, 1997); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 17-October 26, 1997); Georgia Museum of Art (November 22, 1997-January 18, 1998); Spencer Museum of Art (March 14-May 17, 1998).

Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1965.232