Apr 30, 2009 - Sale 2178

Sale 2178 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JACQUES CALLOT
Le Combat des Section d'Infanterie.

Etching, 1616. 227x302 mm; 9x12 inches. Second state (of 2), with the shading on the wall on the house roof at the far left, but before the addition of Rossi's name and before the rework. A very good impression of this extremely scarce print.

We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 20 years. According to Lieure very scarce, "R.R."

A view of a celebration on the Piazza Santa Croce, Florence, during The War of Love festival held in 1615 in honor of Grand Duke Cosimo II's wife, Maria Magdalena. Lieure 171.