{"product_id":"lux-claustri-la-lumiere-du-cloistre-representees-par-3tpvxa7b","title":"Lux claustri. La Lumiere du cloistre. Representees par figures emblematiques, dessignées \u0026 gravées par Jaques Callot.\nParis, François Langlois,","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition\u003c\/strong\u003e of this emblem book celebrating the cloistered life of the monks of the Carthusian Order and dedicated to the prior of the Paris Charterhouse, Augustine Joyeulx.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe subjects are not what one would necessarily expect from a religious emblem book, they are all allegorical in nature with many from the natural world, and some supernatural, such as emblem no. 2 of the “Watchful eye”.\u003c\/strong\u003e Most are set in a sparse landscape where signs of civilisation are just noticeable in the far distance which reflects the hermitic existence of the Carthusians. Each emblem has a motto and verse in French and Latin and is printed on one side of the leaf only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJacques Callot (c. 1592-1635) was one of the outstanding etchers of the Baroque era. He was prolific as printmaker and draftsman and introduced many innovations to the etcher’s art. In Florence he worked for the Medici court and after the death of Cosimo II de’ Medici returned to his native Nancy where he remained for the rest of his life. His most famous work, on the cruelties of war, was \u003cem\u003eLes Grandes Misères de la Guerre\u003c\/em\u003e which influenced Goya’s series on the same subject almost two centuries later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt around the same time as this publication ‘Light of the Cloister’, Augustine Joyeulx commissioned the baroque artist Eustache Le Sueur’s (1619-55) famous series of twenty-two paintings representing the life of Saint Bruno, executed c. 1645-48, to decorate the walls of the Charterhouse’s freshly renovated small cloister (almost all of them are now in the Louvre).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to Lieure the unnumbered plates had previously been published, on their own without text, just before Callot’s death in 1635, in a printing described as ‘extremement rare’. The printer Langlois also issued an edition of Callot’s \u003cem\u003eVita Beatae Mariae Virginis Matris Dei Emblematibus delineata\u003c\/em\u003e in the same year. The two works are Callot’s only emblem books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance: Armorial bookplate of René Choppin, i.e. René Amédée Choppin de Villy (1806-86), bibliophile, whose library was sold in 1920.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEx-libris Dr. Desnos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTitle-page lightly soiled, blank corner of f. 1 repaired.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraz p. 294. Saunders F. 133. Kat. Berlin 4554; Landwehr \u003cem\u003eRomantic\u003c\/em\u003e 199. Lieure 599-625 (second state); E. de T. Bechtel, \u003cem\u003eJacques Callot\u003c\/em\u003e, (1955), Hofer \u003cem\u003eBaroque Book Illustration\u003c\/em\u003e, no. 37.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBel: KL Bru, Fr BN, Ger BSB, UK BL, Glas, Bod, USA: Yale, Folger, Harvard, Princeton, LoC, Newberry, NYPL, Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47702607265949,"sku":"259327","price":2750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/0045\/9677\/files\/259327_01.jpg?v=1772769665","url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/lux-claustri-la-lumiere-du-cloistre-representees-par-3tpvxa7b","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}