May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JACQUES CALLOT
Les Grandes Misères de la Guerre.

Complete set of 18 etchings, 1633. Each approximately 52x185 mm; 2 1/8x7 1/4 inches, wide margins. The title plate in the third state (of 3), each of the other plates in the second state or third state (of 3), with the address of Israel. Many of the sheets with a coat-of-arms with a powder horn watermark (Lieure 44-46, which he notes for early impressions of this series). Ex-collection Städel Museum, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, J. K. Brönner (Lugt 307 and 2396, verso); Dr. Edgar F. Paltzer and Elizabeth Charlotte Paltzer-Boker (Lugt 4262, verso); and Carl Theodor Thiemann (Lugt 642c, verso). Very good, richly-inked impressions with strong contrasts and little to no sign of wear. Lieure 1339-1356.