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Jacques Callot (1592 - 1635)
LE COMBAT À LA BARRIÈRE (The Combat at the Barrier). 1627. Lieure 575 – 588. Complete set of title and nine etchings, the title 152 x 101 mm (6 x 4 3/8”), the nine plates approx. 155 - 157 x 220 - 243 mm (6 1/8 – 6 3/16 x 8 11/16 – 9 9/16”). Very good to fine impressions, on various papers.
The prints in the Combat series were created to commemorate a tournament sponsored by Duke Charles IV of Lorraine, in his palace at Nancy, in honor of his beautiful cousin the Duchess of Chevreuse who was in exile in Lorraine after the discovery of her role in the plot against Richelieu.
This is a put together set, with eight of the plates being from early printings, with watermarks: 4 Lorrain (Lieure filig.no. 35), Le lys couronné au 4 Lorrain (filigr. no. 43), L’ange (filigr. no 27) and Le double C coupé par la croix de Lorraine (filigr. no. 29). Two plates have the watermark Colombier, which was from a posthumous (third) edition printed in the beginning of the 18th century by Fagnani.
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