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Jacques Bellange

Military Figures outside a City, 1612-1616

Description

Maker

  • Jacques Bellange, ca. 1575 - 1616, French

Title

Military Figures outside a City

Year

1612-1616

Medium

Etching and engraving

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • etching

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 27.5 x 22.2 cm (10 13/16 x 8 3/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered within image, LC: "Bellange Eques in incide."

Watermark: Bird with wings spread out

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

52.200

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print

June 17 - November 6, 2011

The setting and people in this scene can be loosely associated with wartime or a battlefield camp, as evidenced by the shield and drum in the foreground and the
fantastically dressed soldier at right. But the exact nature of this camp, the relationship of the figures, and even the gender of the central figure remain unresolved to this day. Jacques Bellange, a near contemporary of Callot’s at the ducal court in Lorraine, probably created this image as a “capriccio” (a fantasy with evocative references but no clear narrative), with allusions to ancient as well as biblical stories. Cultured viewers would have enjoyed decoding Bellange’s oblique references. Though we see some relationship between Bellange’s swaying, mannered figures and those of Callot, Bellange worked on a monumental scale that did not seem to interest Callot.

Helen M. Danforth

June 21 - September 8, 1985

Prints and Drawings with a Classical Reference

December 15, 1965 - January 9, 1966

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