The Pillaging of a Farm (Plate 5 from the set of eighteen: The Miseries of War
Artist
Jacques Callot
(French, 1592 - 1635)
Date1633
MediumEtching and engraving on paper
DimensionsOverall: 3 1/4 x 7 1/4in. (8.3 x 18.4cm)
ClassificationsPRINTS
Credit LineGift of Edward W. Root
Terms
Object number53.16
Description On View
Not on viewCollections
CopyrightNo known copyright restrictions.
Label TextThis etching is part of a suite of images that was inspired by French Cardinal Richelieu's invasion of the territory of Lorraine; one of a series of conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in central Europe during the first half of the 17th century known as the Thirty Years War. Callot's mordant commentary on human cruelty and folly was an important inspiration nearly two hundred years later for Francisco de Goya y Lucientes's Disasters of War prints.
PDS
Februry 2005
