Frontispiece to Jacques Callot, Paysages Gravés pour Jean de Médicis [Landscapes Engraved for Giovanni de Medici]
1633
17th century
12 cm x 24.5 cm (4 3/4 in. x 9 5/8 in.)
François Collignon
(Nancy (?), 1610 - 1687, Rome)
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, French
Medium and Support:
Etching
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002
Accession Number:
2002.505
The Italian Landscapes consist of ten views of the Tuscan coast and countryside. It was traditionally thought that Giovanni de’Medici commissioned the series based on a letter Callot wrote to him in 1618 to present a series of landscape etchings (“the first of the kind I have made”). The actual circumstance of their creation, however, remains unclear. When the series was first published, in 1633, Callot’s French follower Collignon supplied a title page.
Matted and stored with Callot near Lieure 268.