Jacques Callot: Les grandes miseres de la guerre

Jacques Callot (1592-1635) french printmaker. Callot's passion for drawing early has shown. He was learning from local artist. At the age of 12 he left home and went to Italy and learned from Cantalligna in Florence. When his father's friends recognized him they sent back to home.

In 1609 with the permission of his father he went back to Itally, where he can learned from Ph. Thomassin. With the making of The Massacre of the Innocents he has made his reputation.

His world famous etching series the Les grandes miseres de la guerre.

Title, 1632
etching, paper
90 × 191 mm






Recruitment of troops, 1632
etching, paper
81 × 186 mm


the battle, 1632
etching, paper
82 × 187 mm


Scene of pillage, 1632
etching, paper
81 × 187 mm


Plundering a large farmhouse, 1632
etching, paper
81 × 187 mm


Destruction a convent, 1632
etching, paper
81 × 187 mm


Plundering and burning a village, 1632
etching, paper
81 × 187 mm


Attack on a coach, 1632
etching, paper
81 × 187 mm


Discovery of the criminal soldiers, 1632
etching, paper
81 × 187 mm


The Strappado, 1632
etching, paper
81 × 191 mm


The hanging, 1632
etching, paper
81 × 186 mm


The firing squad, 1632
etching, paper
80 × 186 mm


The stake, 1632
etching, paper
80 × 186 mm


The wheel, 1632
etching, paper
82 × 185 mm


The hospital, 1632
etching, paper
81 × 185 mm


Dying soldiers by a roadside, 1632
etching, paper
81 × 185 mm


The peasants avenge themselves, 1632
etching, paper
81 × 185 mm


Distribution of rewards, 1632
etching, paper
81 × 185 mm


source: wikipédia
Pictures's source: Art Gallery NSW