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Original 17th-century engraving by Jacques Callot (1592–1635), showing the entry of the Prince of Pfaltzbourg at the great court spectacle in Nancy, 1627.
This engraving depicts the solemn entry of the Prince of Pfaltzbourg, Louis de Lorraine, surrounded by soldiers, musicians, and allegorical figures, during the magnificent festivities staged in Nancy on 14 February 1627 by Duke Charles IV of Lorraine for his favorite, the Duchesse de Chevreuse.
Known as the Combat à la Barrière, the event was one of the most dazzling court spectacles of the early seventeenth century, combining tournament, allegory, and theatre.
Each courtier appeared on an elaborate chariot, impersonating mythological or symbolic figures. Contemporary accounts recall courtiers dressed as Jason and “Pirandre,” while the Duke himself appeared as the Sun.
The sheet is printed on seventeenth-century Lorraine laid paper, bearing a watermark with two interlaced C’s surmounted by a crown (45 × 68 mm), a type documented in Piccard/WZIS (Nancy, 1602). The chainlines measure about 24 mm apart, with very close laid lines (8–10 per cm), characteristic of paper from Nancy’s mills in the 1620s.
The sheet measures approximately 24 × 16 cm, trimmed at the margins, with some age spots but retaining a strong and vivid impression. These features confirm it as an original 17th-century impression, contemporary with the edition published in Nancy by Sébastien Phillipe.
Jacques Callot (Nancy 1592 – 1635) trained in Italy, working in Florence and Rome, and revolutionized etching with his mastery of the etching needle and the use of stippling. Returning to Nancy, he became court engraver, capturing both political events and ephemeral spectacles in images of extraordinary precision and theatricality.
Comparable impressions are preserved in the British Museum (London), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Louvre (Paris), and the National Gallery of Art (Washington).
- Creator:Jacques Callot (1592 - 1635, French)
- Dimensions:Height: 6.15 in (15.6 cm)Width: 9.61 in (24.4 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Firenze, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2464216936032
Jacques Callot
Jacques Callot, at the age of 12 years old, he runs away in Italy with gypsies. Callot returned for the third time to Italy together with an embassy of Duke Henry II to the Holy See. In 1611, Callot entered the workshop of Tempesta, a famous Italian engraver, for three years. In 1614 Callot left Rome for Florence in the service of Cosimo II de Medici. Callot produced drawings and etchings that drew influence from Flemish art and Mannerist works in Roman churches. Callot’s career began in Florence in 1612 when he started work in the Medici court, where he was employed to make pictorial records of entertainments such as fairs and festivals and where he also drew and etched courtiers, beggars and other characters, excelling particularly at caricatures. Returning to his native France in the latter end of his career, Callot’s work became markedly soberer as he documented the horrors of the 30 years of war in his Miseries of War series, which would continue to influence the artistic representation of conflict social injustice into the 19th and 20th Centuries.
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