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Jacques Callot

The Stag Hunt (La Chasse), 1619

Description

Maker

  • Jacques Callot, 1592-1635, French, designer

Title

The Stag Hunt (La Chasse)

Year

1619

Medium

Etching

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink

Supports

  • Medium weight white laid paper

Dimensions

Plate image: 19.4 x 45.9 cm (7 5/8 x 18 1/16 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of an anonymous friend

Object Number

47.776

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print

June 17 - November 6, 2011

In this wide, horizontal composition, Callot depicted many hunting procedures and devices, including a net in the middle distance, set to trap the stag being chased toward it in the center by a large group of horsemen and dogs. All eyes follow the downward slope of the landscape, guided by the pointing figure of a horseman on the right, the angled spears of two figures on the left, and a runaway horse in the near middle distance. Callot divided the picture plane into six principal tonal values using several stages of etching, darkly framing the foreground with heavier, broader, and denser lines and intimating distant atmosphere with the delicate, lightly-bitten lines of the faraway hilltop castle.

The Landscape Tradition in Printmaking

January 19 - April 22, 1990

Recent Acquisitions of the Print Room

September 28 - October 30, 1948

Use

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