Jacques Callot
Le Siège de la Rochelle (Lieure 655, cf. 660-661)
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jacques Callot
Nancy circa 1592 - 1635 Nancy
Le Siège de la Rochelle (Lieure 655, cf. 660-661)
etching printed from six plates, 1628-31, very good though later impressions, the lower left section of the bird’s eye siege map the third (final) state, the rest of the siege map plates the second (final) states, with the guiding letters; the upper and lower horizontal borders complete, the left section of the upper horizontal border the second state (of three), the remaining sections of the upper and lower horizontal borders the final states, all with the guiding numbers; with the upper section of the left lateral border, the only state, lacking the three remaining sections of the left and right lateral borders, on laid paper with small and large Dovecote watermarks with Initials ‘THD’ (cf. Heawood 1227 and 1230)
each sheet (approx.) 23 by 18 ⅛ in. 58.5 by 46 cm
Lieure 655:
With C.G. Boerner, New York;
From whom acquired by the present collector, 2014.
Several of the border plates:
With Marlborough Rare Books, 1984;
"The Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow, Part Three", Christie's, New York, 20 June 2013, lot 445;
Where acquired by the present collector.
J. Lieure, Jacques Callot Catalogue de l’œuvre gravé, Paris 1921, vol. III, cat. no. 655, cf. 660-661, other impressions illustrated.
The intact map with complete borders is extremely scarce.
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