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Preparing to Fire the Cannon


L'Exercise du canon: la préparation
Unidentified artist
Copied after: Jacques Callot (French, 1592–1635)
mid 17th–mid 18th century

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 3.2 x 7.7 cm (1 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.)(trimmed substantially within the platemark)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP19524
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Meaume 592 (copy); Lieure 1330 (copy)
Marks Verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 1868)
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(cf. Lugt 1309); purchased by MFA November 1897