Admiral Inghirami Presenting Berber Prisoners to Ferdinand I of Tuscany

between 1615 and 1620

Jacques Callot French, 1592-1635

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Title Admiral Inghirami Presenting Berber Prisoners to Ferdinand I of Tuscany

Artwork Date between 1615 and 1620

Artist Jacques Callot

Life Dates 1592-1635

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Brush and brown ink wash over black chalk on cream laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 7 5/8 × 11 7/8 inches (19.4 × 30.2 cm) Framed: 15 1/2 × 19 7/8 × 1 1/2 inches (39.4 × 50.5 × 3.8 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Bequest of John S. Newberry

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 65.137

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Inscriptions In pen and brown ink, verso, center top edge: 18 [?]

Marks Watermark: [double-headed eagle within a circle beneath a crown ?, partially obscured]

Provenance

Pierre Bérès [?]

November 1950, H. M. Calmann (London, England)

1965, John S. Newberry (New York, New York, USA)

1965-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Cummings, Frederick J. and Charles H. Elam, eds. The Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 192.

Exhibition of Twenty-Five Recent Additions to the Collection of John S. Newberry, Jr. Exh. cat. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit 1951, no. 10, p. 14 (ill.), p. 7.

Feinblatt, Ebria. Old Master Drawings from American Collections. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 1976, p. 128, no. 139, p. 129 (ill.).

Ferri, P.N. and F. di Pietro. Mostra di disegni e incisioni de Jacopo Callot, de Stefano della Bella, e della loro scuolo nel Gabinetto dei disegni della R. Galleria degli Uffizi. Exh. cat., Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 1914, p. 18.

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 151 (pl. XXIII), pp. 162-163, no. 70.

The John S. Newberry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 18 (ill.).

Meder, J., Winslow Ames, trans. The Mastery of Drawing. New York, 1977, 1: pp.126 and 441; 2: (pl. 147).

Mongan, Agnes, Helen M. Franc, and Xavier Fourcade. French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse. New York 1959, no. 16, p. 36 (pl. 14).

Perlove, Shelley. "Callot's Admiral Inghirami Presenting Barbary Prisoners to Ferdinand I." Bulletin of the DIA 58, 2 (1980): pp. 93-101, 93 (ill.).

Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit 1979, no. 209, p. 258 (ill.).

Ternois, Daniel. Jacques Callot, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné. Paris, 1962, no. 542.

Perlove, Shelley and George S. Keyes, ed. Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin. Notre Dame, 2015, pp. 236-237, cat. 92 (ill).

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Jacques Callot, Admiral Inghirami Presenting Berber Prisoners to Ferdinand I of Tuscany, between 1615 and 1620, brush and brown ink wash over black chalk on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.137.