Ste. Elisabeth, Reine de Hongrie (St. Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary), November 19th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)
Medium
Etching; second state of two (Lieure)
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 9/16 x 1 15/16 in. (6.5 x 4.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.17-371(412)
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Ste. Elisabeth, Reine de Hongrie** (St. Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary), dated November 19th, a delicate etching from Jacques Callot's renowned series *"Les Images De Tous Lescts et Saintes de'Année"* ( of All of the Saints Religious Events of the Year published by Israël Henriet 1636. Callot, a masterful French Baroque printmaker, specialized in intricate, small-scale works that captured religious devotion with remarkable precision. This piece, in its second state of two ( cataloged by Lieure), honors St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207–1231), a pious noblewoman canonized for her charitable works, ...
About the Artist
Israël Henriet|Jacques Callot · 1585–1661
Israël Henriet (c. 1590–1661) stands as one of the most important figures in 17th-century French printmaking, not only as an accomplished engraver in his own right but as the principal publisher and preserver of Jacques Callot's extraordinary legacy. Born in Nancy, Lorraine, around 1590, Henriet belonged to an artistic family and grew up as a childhood friend of Callot, the preeminent printmaker o...