Image

Jacques Callot

Turk Seen from the Front, Right Hand on Hip (Le Turc Vu de Face, Levant le Bras Droit), ca. 1621-1624

Description

Maker

Title

Turk Seen from the Front, Right Hand on Hip (Le Turc Vu de Face, Levant le Bras Droit)

Year

ca. 1621-1624

Medium

Etchings on cream-colored, slightly textured laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Plate: 8.6 x 8.4 cm (3 3/8 x 3 5/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto of mount:in pencil, LL:Callot; in LR:1st Imp; in LR corner:L.208 1/111; Verso of mount:in pencil, center:17th 1st

Identification

State

State:i/iii

Type

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

78.015.1

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Altered States

June 30 - December 3, 2017

Historic works by Rembrandt and Callot inspired etchers in 19th-century Paris to experiment with working in states. Callot revised and reprinted images in which he transformed a portrait into a battle scene.

Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print

June 17 - November 6, 2011

The first and second states of this print show that Callot first completed the figures and then added the background. The images are part of a series made to serve as models for drawing in pen and ink, demonstrating, on the right, contour, and on the left, shading. Despite the title of this print, the man is wearing a Hungarian costume, not a Turkish one. Callot subscribed to the cultural stereotype of the time by associating this “eastern” man with warfare, adding a scene of violent pillaging as background. The brutal events behind him belie the figure’s graceful posture and elegant costume.

Related

Jacques Callot

Turk Seen from the Front, Right Hand on Hip (Le Turc Vu de Face, Levant le Bras Droit), ca. 1621-1624

Use

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