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First Intermezzo: Ballet of the Knights liberated from Circe's bondage

Print
1617 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Callot, Jacques (etcher)
Place of origin
Florence (printed)

Print showing a theatrical performance: the ballet of the Knights liberated from Circe's bondage.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Theatre
Object type
Print
Titles
  • First Intermezzo: Ballet of the Knights liberated from Circe's bondage (generic title)
  • Les Intermèdes (series title)
  • Primo Intermedio delle veglia della Liberazione di Terreno (assigned by artist)
  • Premier Intermède: le géant Tiphée sous le Mont Ischia (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Etching
Brief description
'Les Intermèdes'. First Intermezzo. First of three plates showing three intermezzi from 'La Liberazione di Tirenno, et d'Arnea' by Andrea Salvadori. Etching by Jacques Callot, 1617.
Physical description
Print showing a theatrical performance: the ballet of the Knights liberated from Circe's bondage.
Dimensions
  • Height: 28.9cm
  • Width: 20.3cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Style
Baroque
Marks and inscriptions
'Iullius Parigi inv: Iacobus Callot delineavit [et] F.' (Lettered with title in Italian and)
Credit line
Purchased from the funds of the Gabrielle Enthoven Bequest
Object history
The scene depicted is one of three intermezzi of the Veglia (Night vigil) of La Liberazione di Tirenno, e d'Arnea a theatrical spectacle by Andrea Salvadori, with ballets and tournaments directed by Agniolo Ricci, music by Marco da Gagliano and scenery and costumes by Giulio Parigi, performed in the theatre in the Uffizi Palace, Florence, on the occasion of the marriage of Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua with Caterina de Medici, a sister of the Grand Duke of Cosimo II, 6 February 1617 (new style dating).

Uffizi Theatre - Teatro de' Medici designed by Bernardo Buontalenti (1586)

A preliminary drawing of this is known and is at Berlin Kupferstichkabinett

The print is dated 1616 in the old style dating.

Salvadori's spectacle was not published in print form until 1668.
Subjects depicted
Stage
Set
Knights
Circe
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
  • Inventaire du fonds francais, graveurs du XVIIe Siècle (Paris: BN, 1929-1999 ongoing), Vol. II, 195, no. 185
  • Le Blanc, Charles. Manual de l’amateur d’estampes (Paris, E. Bouillon, 1854/88-90) Vol. I, p. 568, no. 1181
  • Lieure, Jules. Jacques Callot: Catalogue Raisonée de l’Oeuvre Gravé (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989), p.72-73, no. 185, state IV
  • Meaume, Édouard. Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jacques Callot (Paris: Vve Jules Renouard, 1860), Vol. II p. 304, no. 630, state II
  • Jacques Callot: Prints and Related Drawings (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1975), p.96, no. 61
  • Jacques Callot 1592-1635 [Catalogue of an exhibition at Musée Historique Lorrain, Nancy, 13 June-14 Sept 1992] (Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1992), p.194-6, no. 91
  • Mariette, Pierre-jean et al. Catalogues de la collection d'estampes de Jean V, roi de Portugal (Paris: BN and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; Lisbon: Fundação da Casa de Bragança, 1996-2003), Vol. 2, no. 5-6
  • A. M. Nagler in Theatre Research Vol. III, No. 1, 1961, pp. 6-12.
  • B. Reade, Ballet Designs and Illustrations 1581-1940 (London: HMSO/V&A, 1967), no.s 15-17.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2837-1962

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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