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After Jacques Callot (1592-1635)Battaglia del Re Tessi e del Re Tinta, a Mock Battle between the Com

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After Jacques Callot (1592-1635)Battaglia del Re Tessi e del Re Tinta, a Mock Battle between the Com
After Jacques Callot (1592-1635)Battaglia del Re Tessi e del Re Tinta, a Mock Battle between the Companies of Weavers and Dyers on the Arno an etched leaf for a handscreen, 22 x 29cm; and Jacques Callot (1592-1635) Le Promenade sur L'Eau (Lieure 268), second (final) state Le Moulin a l'Eau (Lieure 274), second state of three, Le Portement de Croix (Lieure 285), second state of three; and Le MarchE9 d'Escalves (Lieure 369), sixth (final) state Provenance:The fan leaf is inscribed "P Mariette 1676" on the reverse. The collector Pierre Mariette (Lugt, 1789) was the greatest print collector of the 17th Century. The present etching by Callot is known to have been mounted as a fan, according to the chronicler, Cesari Tinghi, in Ventagli Italiani, Florence 1990, where he says that the Grand Duke Cosimo II ordered cinquecento roste o ventarole in forma ovata to be distributed at festivities £300-500
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