Jacques CALLOT – Premier intermède : le géant Tiphée sur le mont Ischia, ca 1617


Jacques CALLOT
1592 Nancy + 1635 Nancy
Premier intermède : le géant Tiphée sur le mont Ischia, ca 1617


Original etching
288 x 204
2 500 €

Lieure nr 185 (IV/IV). Good impression of the last state, with Callot’s name. The sheet slightly yellowed; small marginal fractures and smalls tear on the back and rare foxings; slight trace of horizontal crease. Small margins. Watermark : arms (Lieure undescribed). First plate to a set of three intended for illustrating a theatrical spectacle by Andrea Salvadori, “La Liberazione di Tirenno, e d’Arnea”. Rare.