Jost Amman
Portrait of Gaspard II Coligny
1572
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 380 × 280 mm. (14 15/16 × 11 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.4462
Gaspard de Coligny, Seigneur de Châtillon (16 February 1519– 24 August 1572) was a French nobleman and admiral, best remembered as a disciplined Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion and a close friend and advisor to King Charles IX of France. He was killed in the St Bartholomew Day's Massacre, which is depicted at the bottom of the print. See BM 1841,0612.42
Inscribed: Recto: in plate: in cartouche at top: 'Effigies Gasparis de Colig / ni D. de Castilione. Amir / alii Franciae &c..'; in cartouche at bottom: "Fecit Norimbergae Jost/ Amman Tigurinus' and dated 1573; Verso: handwritten in graphite: "Jost Amman / Coligny"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
