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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.164
People
Jacques Callot, French (Nancy 1592 - 1635 Nancy)
Title
Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu, Gaston d'Orléans, and Attendants
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu, Gaston d'Orléans and Attendants at the Siege of the Fortress of Saint Martin on the Ile de Ré
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1629
Culture
French, Lorrainese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294022

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, incised, laid down on decorated mount
Dimensions
16.8 x 22.7 cm (6 5/8 x 8 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, lower center, brown ink: Jaques Callot. né à Nancy. 1593.
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: 8 [encircled]
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper center, brown ink: £125 [illegible] / Given me by Mr. ["r." in superscript] Hickman.
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper right, graphite: M 095665 / 02
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: 57762 R
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink: Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (L.2183)
  • collector's mark: mount, lower right, black ink: L.2372, L.s.2372, and L.2970

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
André-Charles Boulle, Paris (according to Mariette), sold; to Monsieur Haye, London; Hickman, United Kingdom (according to inscription on mount); Jonathan Richardson, Sr., London (his mark, L.2183); possibly his sale 26 January 1747, possibly part of lot 55; Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron St. Helens, London and Somersal Herbert Hall, Derbyshire (his mark, L.2372, mount, lower right); possibly his sale, Christie's, London, 26 May 1840, lot 9; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 January 1992, lot 83; Kate de Rothschild, London, sold; to Vermeer Associates, New York, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1993.164

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund and Richard Norton Memorial Fund
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.164
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Pierre-Jean Mariette, Abécédario de P. J. Mariette et autres notes inédites de cet amateur sur les arts et les artistes, ed. Charles-Phillippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel and Anatole de Montaiglon, J.-B. Dumoulin (Paris, 1851 -1860), vol. 1, pp. 283-84
  • Edouard Meaume, Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jacques Callot: suite au peintre-graveur français de M. Robert-Dumesnil, Ludwig Lazarus (Würzburg, 1860), vol. 1, pp. 245-46
  • Edmond Bruwaert, Vie de Jacques Callot: graveur lorrain, (1592-1635), Imprimerie Nationale (Paris, 1912), p. 137
  • Jules Lieure, Jacques Callot, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1924-1927), vol. 3, p. 7
  • Daniel Ternois, "Dessins de Jacques Callot pour le 'Siège de l'Ile de Ré", Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, Libraire Armand Colin (Paris, 1959), pp. 25-30, pp. 26-27
  • Daniel Ternois, Jacques Callot: Catalogue de son œuvre dessiné, Libraire F. de Nobele (Paris, 1962), p. 127
  • Daniel Ternois, L'Art de Jacques Callot, Libraire F. de Nobele (Paris, 1962), pp. 119, 162, 195
  • Jean-Marc Depluvrez, Jacques Callot, 1592-1635, exh. cat., ed. Paulette Choné and Daniel Ternois, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1992), p. 373
  • Jean Lepoire, "A propos de la gravure de Callot: Le siège de la citadelle de Saint-Martin, dans l'Île de Ré—Préludes au siège de La Rochelle", Le Pays Lorrain: Journal de la Société d'Archéologie Lorraine et du Musée Historique Lorrain, Imprimerie Bialec (Nancy, 1994), vol. 75, no. 1, January-March, pp. 1-22, pp. 20-22
  • Hilliard T. Goldfarb, "Review: Exhibitions in Nancy on the Art of Lorraine at the Time of Jacques Callot", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 1995), vol. 33, no. 1, Spring, pp. 64-68, pp. 64-68
  • Daniel Ternois, Jacques Callot: Catalogue de son œuvre dessiné, Supplément (1962-1998), Libraire F. de Nobele (Paris, 1999), cat. no. S.1487, pp. 8, 34-35, 73, 93
  • Sue Welsh Reed, Richelieu: Art and Power, exh. cat., ed. Hilliard T. Goldfarb, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal/Wallraf-Richartz-Museum/Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon (Montreal and Cologne, 2002), cat. no. 33, pp. 111-17, 391
  • Pierre Rosenberg, From Callot to Greuze: French Drawings from Weimar, exh. cat., ed. David Mandrella, Hermann Mildenberger, Benjamin Perronnet, and Pierre Rosenberg, G + H (Berlin, 2005-2006), cat. no. 4, pp. 50-52
  • Pierre Rosenberg, Dessins français du Musée de Darmstadt: XVIe, XVIIe, et XVIIIe siècles, exh. cat., ed. Dominique Cordellier, Peter Märker, and Pierre Rosenberg, Gourcuff Fradenigo and Hessisches Landesmuseum (Montreuil and Darmstadt, 2007), p. 88
  • Matthias Waschek, Marjorie B. Cohn, Judith Mann, and Stephan Wolohojian, Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2008), cat. no. 42, pp. 35, 38
  • Paola Pacht Bassani, Richelieu à Richelieu: Architecture et décors d'un château disparu, exh. cat., ed. Alexandre Gady and Paola Pacht Bassani, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, 2011), pp. 248-250
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 5, repr., p. 18

Exhibition History

  • Collecting for Harvard: Works Acquired through the Generosity of Melvin R. Seiden, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/03/1993 - 08/15/1993
  • Richelieu: Art and Power, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 09/18/2002 - 01/05/2003; Wallraf-Richartz-Museum / Fondation Corboud, Cologne, 01/31/2003 - 05/04/2003
  • Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009
  • 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/08/2016 - 07/21/2016

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