A Leg and a Pig's Head, 1616/1617

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with red chalk and graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 10.3 x 14.1 cm (4 1/16 x 5 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Ternois 1962, no. 53

Accession Number

2003.6.1.b

Artists / Makers

Jacques Callot (artist) French, 1592 - 1635

Image Use

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Inscription

inscribedi in graphite at lower left: 27.2750/bttt

Provenance

Gosselin collection, Paris; purchased by Winslow Ames, Springfield, MO, 1946; sold by him to Schaeffer Gallery, New York, 1954; at another American gallery by 1962 (according to Ternois 1962); private collection (sale, Christie's, Paris, 21 March 2002; bought in); sale, Christie's, Paris, 27 November 2002, no. 134; (via Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Ames, Winslow, Mr.
Christie's
Prouté, S.A., Paul

Exhibition History

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2009, 46-47, 276, no. 14 (color; recto and verso).

2018: Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1962: Ternois, Daniel. Jacques Callot, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessine. Paris, 1962.

1962: Ternois, Daniel. L'art de Jacques Callot. Paris, 1962; 111, 112, 114, 130, pl. 4a.