Jacques Callot, The Fair at Impruneta
Holden Fund, 1962.20 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Jacques Callot

The Fair at Impruneta

1620

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
etching on two sheets of paper joined
Dimensions
43.2 × 67.6 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-195930

The annual fair held in Impruneta, a commune in Florence, Italy, was an opportunity for rural and urban communities to comingle and partake in commerce, socializing, and festivity. Jacques Callot filled the panorama with 1,138 people, 45 horses, 67 donkeys, and 137 dogs. Prominent in the left foreground is a vendor of tableware patronized by a mix of social classes, selling footed tazzas (shallow cups mounted on stems) and goblets. Pick-pocketing, fighting, snake-charming, and the punishment of a criminal by torture also occur. Callot dedicated this print to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, for who…

Provenance

Holden Fund, 1962.20

Registry history

  • 1620 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints

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