5429 - Callot, Jacques

Callot, Jacques La petite thèse (The Triumph of the Virgin/Jubilee of the Virgin). Etching and copperplate engraving. 55.7 x 36.5 cm (sheet size). 1625. Meaume 100 II, Lieure 562 III. Inscribed. “Callot deserves great credit for making this composition interesting despite the austerity of the subject. It is a gathering of allegorical images and symbolic figures” (Lieure, p. 57). This large-format thesis sheet was created for the Franciscan friars André de l’Auge and Étienne Didelot. Excellent print with remnants of the border line; the bottom and left edges are partially trimmed just inside the border. Scattered foxing; a gray-blue stain within the cloud at the top; a smoothed center fold; in the lower section, partially smoothed crease and fold marks; tiny paper tears along the left and right edges; a small tear in the center on the right there, traces of old mounting and occasional rubbing on the reverse, otherwise well preserved. Rare. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.