Frontispiece for the Sacred Cosmologia (Title with Astrologers)
after Jacques Callot
1630 or later
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 15 × 11 cm (5 7/8 × 4 5/16 in.) sheet: 17.3 × 12.7 cm (6 13/16 × 5 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1949.5.434
About the Artist
after Jacques Callot
**Jacques Callot (c. 1592–1635)**, the master whose designs inspired the works attributed "after Jacques Callot," was a pioneering French Baroque printmaker and draftsman born in Nancy, capital of the independent Duchy of Lorraine (now northeastern France). From a noble family—his father served as master of ceremonies and herald-at-arms to the Duke of Lorraine—young Callot was apprenticed to a gol...