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ANTOINE-FRANÇOIS CALLET (FRANCE 1741-1823)

Lot 83
26.03.2025 15:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1390009
Lot 83 | ANTOINE-FRANÇOIS CALLET (FRANCE 1741-1823)
Estimate value
€ 30 000 – 50 000
ANTOINE-FRANÇOIS CALLET (FRANCE 1741-1823)
Étude pour la figure du sacrificateur de l'Été
signé ‘Callet’ (en bas à droite, à la plume et encre brune)
pierre noire, sanguine et craie blanche, estompe, sur papier gris brun
49 x 36,9 cm (19 3/8 x 14 5/8 in.)




Literature

B. Gallini, Antoine-François Callet (1741-1823) : catalogue raisonné des dessins, mémoire de DEA, université Paris-Sorbonne, 1992, n° 46.
B. Gallini, ‘Antoine-François Callet. Un célèbre inconnu’ L'Objet d'Art, avril 2017, p. 55, ill.



Further details

ANTOINE-FRANÇOIS CALLET, STUDY FOR THE FIGURE OF THE SUMMER PRIEST, BLACK, RED AND WHITE CHALK, STUMP, ON GREY BROWN PAPER, SIGNED

In parallel with his prestigious academic career, and from his time in Italy at the Académie de France in Rome, Antoine Callet specialised in large-scale decorative projects and worked with Charles de Wailly in Genoa. His return to Paris marked the beginning of major commissions for the decoration of private mansions, royal residences and religious buildings between 1774 and 1789.
This large-format study in three pencils should be seen in the context of one of his major decorative projects on the theme of the four seasons, represented by pagan festivals, commissioned from Callet by the King's Buildings Department in 1782. The painting in question is The Summer or Ceres celebrations, the last in the series of four cartoons that Callet presented at the Salon of 1789 under no. 65, now on deposit at the Musée de Picardie in Amiens (inv. 3103; T. Sulerzyska, ‘L’été ou les fêtes de Cérès. Un dessin d’Antoine Callet’, Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France, T. 38, n° 5-6, 1988, pp. 409-412). The cartoons were intended for the Manufacture de tapisseries des Gobelins for the future weaving of the Four Seasons series. The painting of the Summer was described in the following terms at the Salon of 1789: ‘This goddess had taught men how to bring in wheat and make bread from it; amid the sacrifices offered to her, the women, dressed in white, ran with lighted torches in remembrance of Ceres, who, by the light of flaming torches, had travelled through Sicily in search of her daughter Proserpine, kidnapped by Pluto. They offered her pigs as victims'. There is also a painted sketch on canvas of the composition in which the sacrifice is depicted in the shadow at the bottom right of the composition and in a slightly different position, holding the lamb in his arms (The Horvitz Collection, Wilmington).
An overall composition, also preparatory to The Summer, in black stone, red chalk and grey wash heightened with white is held in the Varsonian Print Cabinet (inv. Zb.d.180/III; Antoine-François Callet décorateur. Carnets d'études 12, exhibition catalogue, Paris Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, 2008-2009, p. 66, note 51). Like the other three seasons, the painting was engraved with etching and burin by Jean-Charles Levasseur (1734-1816) (fig. 1).
The drawing will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Antoine-Callet by Brigitte Gallini.
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