Subtitle for "Various Landscapes"
after Jacques Callot
1635 or after
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 9 × 17 cm (3 9/16 × 6 11/16 in.) sheet (irreg.): 11.6 × 20.5 cm (4 9/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
R.L. Baumfeld Collection
Accession Number
1969.15.10
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...