JACQUES CALLOT Combat d'Avigliano ou Combat de Veillane.
Etching, circa 1630. 354x527 mm; 14x20 7/8 inches, small margins. Second state (of 2), with the side border lines extended slightly below the lower border line. Indiscernible object in a circle watermark. Ex-collection Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b, lower left verso); thence by descent to the current owner. A superb impression of this large, very scarce etching.
We have found fewer than 15 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.
The Battle of Avigliano was fought in the Piedmont region of Italy on July 10, 1630 between a French army under the command of Henri II de Montmorency and a Spanish army under the command of Don Carlo Doria. The result was a French victory, commemorated by Callot in this etching bearing a portrait of the victorious French commander, upper center, and his coat-of-arms below. Lieure 663.
