Jacques Callot
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Second Plate)

ArtistFrench, 1592–1635
PublisherFrench, c. 1590–1661
CultureFrench
Titles
  • The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Second Plate)
Date1635
Published inFrance
MediumEtching on laid paper, state III/V
DimensionsPlate: 14 × 18 1/4 in. (35.6 × 46.4 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 19 3/8 in. (36.8 × 49.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment
Object number2016.18
Non exposé

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Provenance[Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints and Drawings, Dallas, by 2014-2016]; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Exhibition History"Vignettes: Masterworks on Paper 1520 to 1870," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 14—April 16, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, left: ILLVSTRISSIMO MAXIMOQVE VIRO D.D. LVDOVICO PHELYPEAVX DNO. / IA. CALLOT VOVET / Informes larua, cœcis stabulata latèbris / Monstra suum rupère Chaos, atque agmine facto / Letiferis orbem violant lucemque venenis. / Tot seclerum facies Erebo mutauit Erèmum. / Intercà vasti quid agis sub fornice saxi.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, center: Cum Primil. Reg. / Israel excu 1635.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink below image, right: DE LAVRILIERE COMITI CONSISTORIANO SACRARVM IVSSIONVMIIIIVIRO / DEDICAT CONSECRATQVE / Sancte senex, tantos sentis et despicis hostes? / Hil spirat mortale tibi: nec Gaudia pectus. / Blanda mouent, nec frangit Amor, nec funera terrent. / Mens infixa polo reparans-que ab Origine vires / Sustinet in terris quas ridet in æthere pugnas
Recto: Signed in printed ink, lower left: Jac. Callot Inven. et fe
Recto: Watermark, left center: [grapes]
Catalogue raisonnéMeaume 1860 139.III; Lieure 1927, III, 93-95.1416.III/V; Marot; Choné 536

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