Les Exercices Militaires

Artist Jacques Callot (French, 1592 - 1635)

Date1635

MediumEtching

Credit LineGift of Milton McGreevy

Object numberF76-55/9

Edition/State/ProofI/II

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Exhibition History

Architecture and Decorative Arts in Prints from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 13-April 10, 1983, no. 20, as Les Exercices Militaires, 1635.

Provenance

With Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Los Angeles, CA, by August 1960;

Purchased from Zeitlin & Ver Brugge by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, August 22, 1960-December 28, 1976 [1];

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1976.

NOTES:

[1] Zeitlin & Ver Brugge invoice, Nelson-Atkins Archives, MSS007 Milton McGreevy Papers.

Published References

Architecture and Decorative Arts in Prints from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), p. 4, as Les Exercices Militaires, 1635.

Édouard Meaume, Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jacques Callot (Paris: Vve. J. Renouard, 1860), no. 583, pp. 271-72, as Les exercices militaires (*): Trois soldats coiffés de chapeaux à plumes. Celui de droite est vu de profil, les deux mains appuyées sure une canne. Celui de gauche, qui est vu de trois quarts et tenant une baguette à la main, fait un geste de la main gauche à celui du milieu, comme pour lui apprendre à marcher.

Jules Lieure, Jacques Callot: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989), no. 1321 I/II.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 291, as Les Exercices Militaires.

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