The French seventeenth-century artist Jacques Callot is one of the first seventeenth-century artists to work exclusively as a printmaker and attain fame. His oeuvre encompasses about 1400 prints and over 2000 drawings produced over less than three decades. His career is generally divided into his Italian period (1608-1621) and his French period (1621-1635).
Caption: Gobbo with Walking Stick
The University Art Gallery, known as the UAG, owns some 500 prints by
Jacques Callot and about 100 that are related to Callot's
original production. This collection is unpublished and therefore
unknown to scholars working in this field; it was not listed in Diane
Russell's `Prints by Callot in American and Canadian Public Collections'
[Russell (1975)].
Caption: Gobbo with Wooden Leg and Crutch
Both in terms of quantity and quality, this collection is among the best
in the United States and Canada, next to, for instance, those of the Art
Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Yale University
Gallery and the Fogg Art Museum. Only public collections such
as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York surpass the University of Pittsburgh collection.
Caption: Gobbo with Big Belly
Because of its size, the UAG collection provides a good overview of
Jacques Callot's enormous oeuvre, covering all the themes with
which the artist dealt. The collection lacks a few important prints,
such as The Fan, but it includes some other, very rare prints,
such as Christ on
the Cross (1611) and The Grain Weighers (1611), the latter
existing only in one state.
Moreover, the collection has a group of seventeenth-century copies after
Callot which are
fundamental to understanding the extent of Callot's influence during his
lifetime and throughout
the subsequent centuries. Since it is a valuable tool for the study of
seventeenth-century French
printmaking, we have decided to make the collection available to scholars
and students in this
format. If you wish to download or publish an image from this screen,
please include the byline
`Courtesy University of Pittsburgh, University Art Gallery.'
Caption: Gobbo with Wine Bottle and Glass
Caption: Gobbo Playing the Bagpipe
The two documents entitled Jacques Callot's Italian Period
(1608-1621)
and Jacques Callot's French Period (1621-1635) provide an
overview of the artist's production in a chronological and historical
framework. The document on Jacques Callot and the Art of
Printmaking offers an introduction to
printmaking techniques and to Callot's revolutionary innovations in that
in Newfield. Jacques Callot and
Book Illustrations deals with the rarely discussed theme of his
collaboration with the book trade and especially the commissions he
received as an
illustrator. The section entitled The Copies after Jacques Callot's
Prints is completely original
in scope and peculiar to the UAG collection, since it deals with the
influence of Callot on his peers
and more generally on the art of printmaking. The remaining documents --
Jacques Callot and
the Theater, Paupers and Nobles: Jacques Callot's Human
Comedy, The Religious Prints
of Jacques Callot, The Military Prints of Jacques Callot, and
Jacques Callot and the Art of
Landscape -- offer a thematic overview of Callot's oeuvre.
Caption: Guitar Player with Crooked Legs
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Caption: Gobbo Playing a String Instrument
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