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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.606.2
People
Jacques Callot, French (Nancy 1592 - 1635 Nancy)
Title
Saint Peter
Other Titles
Former Title: Saint James the Less
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1631
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294585

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and brown ink on cream antique laid paper, laid down on blue antique laid paper
Dimensions
15.4 x 9.3 cm (6 1/16 x 3 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: Callot [illegible] / St. James the Less / key added
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 7493 [encircled]
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink: Germain Seligman (L.3863)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jean-Denis Lempereur, Paris; his sale, Paris, 1773; Lord Delamare, London; Henry Scipio Reitlinger, London; his sale, Sotheby's, 14 April 1954, part of lot 295, sold; to M. Bier, sold; to Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, L.3863, lower right, black ink); Robert M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara (as of 1979), sold; to Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1984, inv. no. 1984.606.2


Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Accession Year
1984
Object Number
1984.606.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Boris Lossky, Das 17. Jahrhundert in der französischen Malerei, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bern (Bern, 1959), cat. no. 111, n.p.
  • Daniel Ternois, Jacques Callot: catalogue complet de son œuvre dessiné, Libraire F. de Nobele (Paris, 1962), cat. no. 911, p. 130, repr.
  • E.P. Lawson, Images of the Saints / L'Art et les Saints, exh. cat., The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, 1965), cat. no. 62, n.p., repr.
  • Henri Zerner, James Patrick Cooney, Marilyn F. Friedman, Cora Lee Gibbs, Joseph Jacobs, Carol Joyce, Barbara Shepherd Poore, Jacquelyn Lanman Sheehan, and Martha T. Lively, Jacques Callot 1592-1635, exh. cat., Brown University Museum of Art (Providence, 1970), cat. no. 73, repr.
  • Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), p. 142
  • John Richardson, ed., The Collection of Germain Seligman: Paintings, Drawings and Works of Art, E. V. Thaw & Co., Artemis S.A., and David Carritt Ltd. (New York, Luxembourg, and London, 1979), cat. no. 11, n.p., repr. (image erroneously confused with cat. no. 11)
  • Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, 3 July 1990), p. 124
  • Daniel Ternois, Jacques Callot: catalogue de son œuvre dessiné: supplément, 1962-1998, Libraire F. de Nobele (Paris, 1999), p. 35
  • Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, January 28, 2015), p. 28

Exhibition History

  • Das 17. Jahrhundert in der französischen Malerei, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, 02/01/1959 - 03/01/1959
  • Images of the Saints / L'Art et les Saints, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 03/05/1965 - 04/04/1965
  • 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/08/2016 - 07/21/2016

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