May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 187

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
JACQUES CALLOT
Le Combat des Sections d'Infanterie.

Etching, 1616. 227x302 mm; 9x12 inches, thread margins. Third state (of 3), with the address of Rossi lower left. A very good impression of this extremely scarce etching.

We have found only 4 other impressions at auction in the past 30 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.