The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
The Large Hunt
1619
(French, 1592–1635)
Sheet: 20.7 x 47.1 cm (8 1/8 x 18 9/16 in.); Platemark: 19.8 x 46.3 cm (7 13/16 x 18 1/4 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: Lieure (2) II.11.353
Location: not on view
Description
Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635) The Large Hunt, 1619 Etching Gift of Margaret Crile Garretson in memory of Hiram Garretson 1970.342 Callot is known for two important inventions in etching. He designed a slanted, oval-shaped, steel-tipped etching tool called an échoppe which is used to imitate the tapering and swelling lines of an engraving. He also developed a hard ground (an acid-resistant coating for etching plates), composed of mastic and linseed oil, that resisted chipping. Callot's work was significantly influenced by theater design. His organization of space, usually into three distinct areas (although there are five in this case)-foreground, middleground, and background-resembles stage sets of the time. In fact, this work was probably inspired by a theater screen painted by Federico Zuccaro in 1565. Like Jacques Bellange, whose works are featured in galleries 109 and 110, Callot was from Lorraine. He was one of the most prolific professional printmakers of the 1600s. Trained as an engraver, he worked in Nancy, France, the Low Countries, and in Florence for Grand Duke Cosimo II de' Medici. His range of subjects was broad-religious scenes, theater and pageants, court life, beggars, and landscapes.- purchased from (P. & D. Colnaghi, NY).
- Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 3-October 26, 1997).Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/3/97 - 10/26/97. "Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620."French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982).Stefano Della Bella; Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione; Jacques Bellange; Jacques Callot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 7-July 13, 1980).Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).
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