Lot n° 15

Callot, Jacques - [Le Bénédicité] ou [La Sainte Famille à table], 17th c. Engraving, c. 16,7 x 19 cm, laid paper 24 x 21,5 cm; signed in the pl. in lower left corner (tiny hole on upper platemark). Good copy.

Estimation : €120/200
Adjudication : 300 €
Description
charming scene in a circle within a square with st Joseph helping Jesus to drink, by the French baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine, Jacques Callot (1592 -1635). Caption in Latin underneath “Eia age care puer (...) morte cadet.”. This is supposed to be one of his 1st chiaroscural prints. Ref. Lieure 595. Meaume 65.
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