The Fair at Gondreville

Artist Jacques Callot (French, 1592 - 1635)

Date1625

MediumEtching

DimensionsImage: 7 7/16 × 13 inches (18.89 × 33.02 cm)

Credit LineGift of John Canady

Object number70-47

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Exhibition History

An Italian Panorama: The Romance of Ruins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 10, 2009-May 16, 2010, no cat., as The Fair at Gondreville.

An Italian Panorama: The Romance of Ruins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 19, 2017-January 14, 2018, no cat., as The Fair at Gondreville.

Gallery Label

Fairs, where people came to trade and to enjoy themselves from far and wide, were a vital part of life in the 17th century. The fair at Gondreville was associated with the month of May, and towards the left, maidens can be seen presenting seasonal flowering branches to an elegant couple. Note the way the huge tree casts a protective shadow over the crowd.

Provenance

With John Canady (1907-1985), New York, by December 1, 1970;

Given by John Canady to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1970.

Published References

Édouard Meaume, Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jacques Callot (Paris: Vve. J. Renouard, 1860), no. 623, pp. 295-97, as Le jeu de boules; le bal champêtre; la petite foire ou la foire de Gondreville (*).

Jules Lieure, Jacques Callot: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989), no. 561 II/II.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 291, as The Fair at Gondreville (or Xeuilley).

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