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The Great Rock


Le Grand rocher
Jacques Callot (French, 1592–1635)
about 1618-1620

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 19.7 x 32.8 cm (7 3/4 x 12 15/16 in.)
Platemark: 11.6 x 25 cm (4 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number63.2788
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Meaume 1190; Lieure 0276, ii/ii
Marks Recto, lower center, just below the platemark, the blindstamp of Alexandre-Pierre-François Robert-Dumesnil, Paris (1778-1864)(Lugt 2200); verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceAlexandre-Pierre-François Robert-Dumesnil (b. 1778 - d. 1864), Paris. William Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; by inheritance to his niece, Lydia Evans Tunnard (Mrs. Christopher Tunnard, b. 1913 - d. 1980), New Haven, CT; 1963, year-end gift of Mrs. Christopher Tunnard to the MFA. (Accession date: December 30, 1963)