Jacques Callot

Jacques Callot
La Tentation de Saint Antoine (L. 1416)
etching, 1635, second state (of five), before the joining of the a and the e in the first line of the left verse and before the alteration of the rosettes in the Coat of Arms, a very fine and rich impression of this rare state, with exellent contrasts, trimmed to or fractionally into the subject on three sides and to the lower flourishes of text at the bottom and re-margined, a central vertical fold, otherwise generally in very good condition
S. 358 x 464mm.