Les Danseurs a la Flute et au Tambourin, plate 32 from "Les Caprices" by Jacques Callot

Les Danseurs a la Flute et au Tambourin, plate 32 from Les Caprices by Jacques Callot

Les Danseurs a la Flute et au Tambourin, plate 32 from "Les Caprices"

Jacques Callot

Title

Les Danseurs a la Flute et au Tambourin, plate 32 from "Les Caprices"

 
Artist

Jacques Callot

  1592 - 1653 (biography)
Year
1621 -22, first state 
Technique
etching 
Image Size
2 3/16 x 3 5/16" platemark 
Signature
unsigned, as usual 
Edition Size
not applicable 
Annotations
on verso in pencil "M835I" plus dealers' inventory numbers. 
Reference
Lieure 460 (L.246 in first printing), state i/ii in this printing edition, before the addition of numbers; Meaume 835, state I. 
Paper
antique-white laid 
State
ii/ii published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
20291 
Price
SOLD
Description

The first series was engraved on relatively soft copper plates, in 1617. Details were rapidly lost and the set gave very few good impressions. Callot engraved a second 'Capricci' series when he came back to Nancy (1621) using hard copper plates.

The two series are almost identical and many sets today actually mix plates from both series. The most obvious difference is that the plates from the Nancy series were numbered in the second state of the second printing. The smaller differences are described in detail in Lieure's & Meaume's catalogues.