print
- Museum number
- R,1a.67
- Title
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Object: Iacobus Callot
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Series: Icones Principum Virorum
- Description
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Portrait of Jacques Callot, half-length turned to left but looking towards the viewer, holding a pencil in his right hand and making a drawing of three figures under a tree, his left hand on the edge of the paper, wearing a large lace collar, buttoned doublet, coat with unbuttoned sleeves, two chains with a pendant tied to the lower of the two; drawing materials on a table in front; first, lettered state with the title and production details; after Anthony van Dyck
Engraving
- Production date
- 1630-1645
- Dimensions
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Height: 230 millimetres
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Width: 170 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For impressions of later states see 1863,0509.907; 1935,1213.1.106; and 1861,0713.9. For comment on Anthony van Dyck's Iconography portrait series see R,1b.47.
The copper-plate is kept in the Chalcographie, Musée du Louvre, inv.no.2321. No related portrait or preparatory work are known.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Acquisition notes
- for the argument that this probably comes from Cracherode, see R,1a.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- R,1a.67