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Auction archive: Lot number 152

Inscribed lower right: callot fec. Red

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£0
Price realised:
£717
ca. US$1,128
Auction archive: Lot number 152

Inscribed lower right: callot fec. Red

Estimate
£0
Price realised:
£717
ca. US$1,128
Beschreibung:

Inscribed lower right: callot fec. Red chalk, brown wash and brown ink over traces of black chalk 92 x 92mm The two figures in our drawing were no doubt developed from two separate figure sketches in the Hermitage (Daniel Ternois, Dessins de Jacques Callot Paris, 1962, nos.1177 and 1215), certainly cut from a larger page, like the others in a very large group stemming from the Album Julienne. The two sketches in question have been connected respectively with the large print of the Martyrdom of St Sebastian (Lieure 670) of c.1632, and the smaller print of The Martyrdom of St Bartholomew (Lieure 1395), one of a series of The Martyrdom of the Apostles of about the same date. St Sebastian in the print is very close in pose to Ternois 1177 and the left-hand figure in our drawing; the St Bartholomew, Ternois 1215, on the other hand, is more distant, and in the print is attached to a ladder, not a tree. The reappearance of our drawing suggests that the relation of the Hermitage drawings to the prints is less direct than had previously been thought. In our drawing which must succeed those in the Hermitage, Callot seems to have planned a scene containing two martyrdoms within the same field, rather than two which are separate. He may have been thinking of a mass-martyrdom like that of Saint Achatius and the Ten Thousand, or St Maurice and the Theban Legion. Subsequently, he would have employed the figures in the two engravings, taking over the left-hand figure virtually unchanged for Sebastian, and the right hand one, with modifications, for St Bartholomew. Studies of domestic animals occur rarely in Callot's drawings. These four sketches of cats are rendered in his masterly technique of patches of dense dark wash contrasted with brilliant areas of spared paper.

Auction archive: Lot number 152
Auction:
Datum:
9 Apr 2003
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Inscribed lower right: callot fec. Red chalk, brown wash and brown ink over traces of black chalk 92 x 92mm The two figures in our drawing were no doubt developed from two separate figure sketches in the Hermitage (Daniel Ternois, Dessins de Jacques Callot Paris, 1962, nos.1177 and 1215), certainly cut from a larger page, like the others in a very large group stemming from the Album Julienne. The two sketches in question have been connected respectively with the large print of the Martyrdom of St Sebastian (Lieure 670) of c.1632, and the smaller print of The Martyrdom of St Bartholomew (Lieure 1395), one of a series of The Martyrdom of the Apostles of about the same date. St Sebastian in the print is very close in pose to Ternois 1177 and the left-hand figure in our drawing; the St Bartholomew, Ternois 1215, on the other hand, is more distant, and in the print is attached to a ladder, not a tree. The reappearance of our drawing suggests that the relation of the Hermitage drawings to the prints is less direct than had previously been thought. In our drawing which must succeed those in the Hermitage, Callot seems to have planned a scene containing two martyrdoms within the same field, rather than two which are separate. He may have been thinking of a mass-martyrdom like that of Saint Achatius and the Ten Thousand, or St Maurice and the Theban Legion. Subsequently, he would have employed the figures in the two engravings, taking over the left-hand figure virtually unchanged for Sebastian, and the right hand one, with modifications, for St Bartholomew. Studies of domestic animals occur rarely in Callot's drawings. These four sketches of cats are rendered in his masterly technique of patches of dense dark wash contrasted with brilliant areas of spared paper.

Auction archive: Lot number 152
Auction:
Datum:
9 Apr 2003
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
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