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JACQUES CALLOT (1592-1635) La Foire de l'Impruneta (Deuxième Planche)
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JACQUES CALLOT (1592-1635) La Foire de l'Impruneta (Deuxième Planche)
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JACQUES CALLOT (1592-1635)
La Foire de l'Impruneta (Deuxième Planche)
etching
circa 1622
on two joined sheets of laid paper, watermark Rampant Lion with Star (similar to Lieure 38) on both sheets
a very fine impression of the first state (of two)
printing with good contrasts and depth, with pronounced inky relief
with an inky plate edge below
trimmed to the borderline on three sides, a small margin below
in very good condition
Sheet: 16 ½ x 26 ¼ in. (420 x 665 mm.)Albertina, Vienna, with their de-accession stamp verso (Lugt 5d).
With David Tunick Inc., New York; his catalogue, The Art of Print, 1983 (with his stocknumber in pencil verso).
Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection, Detroit; acquired from the above in 1983; then by descent to the present owners.Lieure 478The Detroit Institute of Arts, Master Prints of 5 Centuries: The Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection, 1990-91, p. 158, n. 147.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Prints and Drawings in the Age of Rubens, 1994.Aged 21, Jacques Callot visited the annual Fiera di San Luca at Impruneta, a village near Florence, on 18 October 1619. He was so impressed with what he saw that he filled an entire sketchbook on the occasion, which is today at the Uffizi in Florence (see for example inv. no. 613P). Based on his drawings of the crowded fairground and many other, more detailed observations, he completed a very large plate, depicting the whole panorama. When he left Florence a year later, following the death of Cosimo II de Medici, he took the plate with him to his native city of Nancy, where it is still today at the Musée Lorrain. The print was in such demand that Callot produced a second plate of the same subject shortly after his return, around 1622, of which a very fine, luminous impression is being offered here. Just as the first version, Callot dedicated it to his former patron in Florence, Cosimo II de' Medici.
It is a joy to observe the multitude of activities of the visitors, traders and performers at the fair and the many amusing details, so lovingly described by Callot.
La Foire de l'Impruneta is also an important example of the 'stopping-out' technique, which allowed the printmaker to vary the depth and strength of the etched lines. In this print, one of the masterpieces of his oeuvre, Callot had perfected the method, with the background printing gradually more lightly to create an atmospheric sense of depth and perspective.