Une Fête sur la Place de la Signoria, à Florence (A Festival in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence), from the series Capricci di varie figure (Les Caprices ; The Caprices series)
Jacques Callot, French, 1592 - 1635
about 1621
Etching on laid paper
Sheet: 2 3/16 × 3 1/16 in. (5.5 × 7.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, Class of 1935P and 1939P
PR.948.20.7
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Collection mark, reverse, stamped, in blue ink, lower right: G.P. [encircled] [Lugt 1189a]
Course History
ARTH 17, Italian Renaissance Architecture: Issues and Approaches, Lauren Jacobi, Winter 2013
ITAL 23, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture, Nancy Canepa, Winter 2015
Exhibition History
Theater Art of the Medici, Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 15, 1980-January 31, 1981.
Theater Art of the Medici, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Beaumont-May Gallery and Lower Jewett Corridor, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 10-December 7, 1980.
Publication History
Arthur R. Blumenthal, Theater Art of the Medici, Hanover, New Hampshire and London: The University Press of New England, 1980, p. 121, no. 59, ill. p. 122.
Provenance
Probably from the collection of Gustav Parthey (1798-1872), Berlin; Dr. Franz H. Hirschland (1880-1973), New York, New York; given to present collection, 1948.
Catalogue Raisonne
Lieure 473; Meaume 859
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