Jacques Callot

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Jacques Callot

1592-1635

The Miracle of St. Mansuetus

ca. 1621

Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on laid paper.

Design area: 8 1/4 x 7 1/16 inches (209 x 180 mm); full sheet: 9 3/16 x 7 1/8 inches (233 x 180 mm)

Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Kenneth A. Spencer.

1978.35

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Watermark: none.
Born in Lorraine, the printmaker Callot spent most of his career at Cosimo de' Medici's court in Florence before returning to France in 1621 to work at the court in Nancy alongside Deruet. This sheet, produced after the artist's return, is devoted to a local saint, Mansuetus (d. 375), who was the first Bishop of Toul, in Lorraine. It shows the saint resuscitating King Leucorus's son, who had drowned in the river Meuse, and is one of a series of exploratory studies on the theme in preparation for the artist's etching of 1621 (Lieure 378, Miaume 641).

Inscription:

Numbered in an old hand in pen and brown ink on verso at lower left, "N 4096".

Provenance:

Jonkheer Johann Goll van Franckenstein the Younger (1756-1821), Amsterdam (his "No. 4096" on verso, Lugt 2987); Jonkheer Pieter Hendrik Goll van Franckenstein (1787-1832), Amsterdam; Thomas Cholmondeley (1787-1855), 1st Baron Delamere; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 April 1926, lot 362; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882-1950), London (no mark; see Lugt S. 2274a); his sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 April 1954, lot 294; Mr. and Mrs. Germain Seligman, New York; R.H. Light & Co., Santa Barbara.

Associated names:

Goll van Franckenstein, Johan, 1756-1821, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, Pieter Hendrik, 1787-1832, former owner.
Delamere, Lord, former owner.
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, former owner.
Seligman, Germain, former owner.
Seligman, Germain, Mrs., former owner.
Spencer, Kenneth A., Mrs., donor.

Bibliography:

Bjurström, Per. Drawings from Stockholm : A Loan Exhibition from the Nationalmuseum. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, no. 84.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 181.
Denison, Cara D., and Helen B. Mules, with the assistance of Jane V. Shoaf. European Drawings, 1375-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, no. 49, repr.
Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 11.
Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, no. 14, repr.

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