Landscape with a Ferry

Alternate TitleThe Walk by the Water

Artist Jacques Callot (French, 1592 - 1635)

Date1618

MediumEtching

DimensionsImage: 4 7/16 x 9 5/8 inches (11.27 x 24.45 cm)

Credit LineGift of Laurence Sickman

Object number72-18/3

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Exhibition History

Occidental Graphics from the Collection of Laurence Sickman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13- October 18, 1992, no. 70, as The Walk by the Water.

Decorative Designs, Decorative Landscapes and Still Life, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 29-November 8, 2009, no cat., as Landscape with a ferry.

Decorative Designs, Decorative Landscapes and Still Life, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15-July 16, 2017, no cat., as Landscape with a ferry.

Gallery Label

Jacques Callot is best known for his scenes of the horrors of war. This landscape is far more peaceful and shows a villa by a river with a ferry. Note the picturesque costume of the boatman who uses a pole to propel the boat across the river, like a gondolier in Venice. The dark tree to the right makes an effective foil to the building in the sunlight.

Provenance

With Laurence Sickman (1907-1988), Kansas City, MO, by June 23, 1972;

Given by Laurence Sickman to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1972.

Published References

Édouard Meaume, Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jacques Callot (Paris: Vve. J. Renouard, 1860), no. 1191, pp. 512-13, 515 as Paysages dessinés à Florence, par Callot (*): La promenade sur l’eau.

Jules Lieure, Jacques Callot: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989), no. 268 II/II.

Occidental Graphics from the Collection of Laurence Sickman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13- October 18, 1992, p. 10, as The Walk by the Water.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 292, as La Promenade sur l’eau.

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