id: 145173 accession number: 1970.342 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.342 updated: 2023-01-19 15:19:15.357000 The Large Hunt, 1619. Jacques Callot (French, 1592–1635). Etching; sheet: 20.7 x 47.1 cm (8 1/8 x 18 9/16 in.); platemark: 19.8 x 46.3 cm (7 13/16 x 18 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Margaret Crile Garretson in memory of Hiram Garretson 1970.342 title: The Large Hunt title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1619 creation date earliest: 1619 creation date latest: 1619 current location: creditline: Gift of Margaret Crile Garretson in memory of Hiram Garretson copyright: --- culture: France, 17th century technique: etching department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Lieure (2) II.11.353 --- CREATORS * Jacques Callot (French, 1592–1635) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 20.7 x 47.1 cm (8 1/8 x 18 9/16 in.); Platemark: 19.8 x 46.3 cm (7 13/16 x 18 1/4 in.) state of the work: I/IV edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(3) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: lower left, in plate: Jac Callot In. et Fe ; verso, center left, in graphite: 3-2[sideways] ; VERSO, lower right, in graphite: L353 I/4 ; lower right, in graphite: 35[circled] ; lower right, in graphite: C 37105 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1970 opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage opening date: 1971-10-29T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 1971-January 2, 1972). title: Stefano Della Bella; Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione; Jacques Bellange; Jacques Callot opening date: 1980-05-07T04:00:00 Stefano Della Bella; Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione; Jacques Bellange; Jacques Callot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 7-July 13, 1980). title: French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792 opening date: 1982-01-25T05:00:00 French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 16, 1982). title: Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620 opening date: 1997-08-03T00:00:00 Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 3-October 26, 1997). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/3/97 - 10/26/97. "Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620." --- PROVENANCE purchased from (P. & D. Colnaghi, NY). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635) The Large Hunt, 1619 Etching Gift of Margaret Crile Garretson in memory of Hiram Garretson 1970.342 Callot is known for two important inventions in etching. He designed a slanted, oval-shaped, steel-tipped etching tool called an échoppe which is used to imitate the tapering and swelling lines of an engraving. He also developed a hard ground (an acid-resistant coating for etching plates), composed of mastic and linseed oil, that resisted chipping. Callot's work was significantly influenced by theater design. His organization of space, usually into three distinct areas (although there are five in this case)-foreground, middleground, and background-resembles stage sets of the time. In fact, this work was probably inspired by a theater screen painted by Federico Zuccaro in 1565. Like Jacques Bellange, whose works are featured in galleries 109 and 110, Callot was from Lorraine. He was one of the most prolific professional printmakers of the 1600s. Trained as an engraver, he worked in Nancy, France, the Low Countries, and in Florence for Grand Duke Cosimo II de' Medici. His range of subjects was broad-religious scenes, theater and pageants, court life, beggars, and landscapes. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.342/1970.342_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.342/1970.342_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.342/1970.342_full.tif