Circle of Jacques Callot

Accepting this sheet as by Callot only with serious reservations, Ternois grouped it with two others sold through Colnaghi in 1954 (nos. 1318, 1319). These three drawings are by the same hand and distinguished by their extended horizontal format. The sheet which was the basis for an engraving (no 1318; M. 1147) was tentatively attributed by James Byam Shaw to Israel Silvestre, although Ternois noted Callot or Israel Henriet may be the author of all three. Research by Antony Griffiths and Hugo Chapman into the Chatsworth Callot album and Israel Henriet's role in publishing prints after Callot has identified a similar group of horizontal format pen-and-ink landscapes as from the circle of Callot. These sheets were included among Callot's studio contents and some were later used by Henriet as the basis for prints which he ascribed to Callot. Likewise, the present sheet was seemingly among Callot's studio contents inherited by Silvestre and passed down bearing an association with Callot, though most likely it was executed by someone in his circle.