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Artwork >> James Stow >> Jacques Callot"Grandes misères de la guerre" Etching


Artwork >> James Stow >> Jacques Callot

"Jacques Callot"Grandes misères de la guerre" Etching"
James Stow
etching
Grandes misères de la guerre. Second edition,(originally issued in Paris, 1633, as Grandes misères de la guerre). Each plate here adds a verse, "six lines by Michel de Marolles" (OCLC) at the foot of the image, not present in the original edition.
Callot (1592-1633), a native of Nancy, France, trained in Florence, "taking up etching and introducing the technical innovation of using a very hard ground on the plate, thus making it possible to vary the thickness of the line, modeling it along its whole course … with a dependable ground to work on, he became the first specialist virtuoso etcher … [this work provides] the first unromantic pictures of war, exposing its impersonal cruelty, casual violence, and senseless destruction … his records of war-torture, rape, burning at the stake, the firing squad-are strikingly believable because he observed decorum, viewed events as dispassionately as only a Frenchman can, and made his figures move as delicately and precisely as deadly insects. Through his technical innovations and the excellence of his drawing he exerted an influence more profound than that of may greater artists" One of 18 engraved plates (ca. 8.2 x 18.5 cm.
3.50 by 7.50 Inches), numbered 2-18 (including the title plate, also numbered "2," as issued).
Each plate trimmed closely, else a very good impression on early laid paper . Purchased in the mid 1980's from the noted "Associated American Artists" , New York City .







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