Lot n° 109
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CALLOT (Jacques). Les Misères et les Malheurs de la guerre - - Lot 109
CALLOT (Jacques). Les Misères et les Malheurs de la guerre - représentez par Jacques Callot - Noble Lorrain et mis en lumière par Israel son amy. In Paris, 1633, with Privilege of the King. In-8 oblong, full binding, red marocco, comp. à la Du Seuil, spine decorated with small irons, inner dent. gilt. (Lortic).
FULL SET OF 18 ORIGINAL EAUX-FORTES (82 x 187 mm) in fine second state proofs, (out of 3), before the Privilege and the Excudit of Israel have been erased, printed on large Huchet laid sheets (123 x 227 mm),
VERY FINE SUITE IN SECOND STATE OF CALLOT'S MASTERPIECE.
Trained as a painter and engraver from the age of 12 in Italy, first as a runaway, Jacques Callot entered the service of the Medici in 1612 with the consent of his family, where he acquired a great reputation. He returned to Nancy in 1621 at the request of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine. He produced this very famous suite, often called Les grandes misères, shortly after the siege by Louis XIII's armies of the capital of the duchy of Lorraine in 1633. Well known for his incomparable talent, Jacques Callot was asked by the King of France to engrave this decisive event in the Thirty Years' War, the siege of Nancy. Three years earlier, Callot had already produced Le Grand siège de La Rochelle for the same illustrious patron. But the engraver from Nancy was a patriot and would have replied, "Sire, I am from Lorraine and believe that I should do nothing against the honor of my Prince and my country." These engravings of a great
master not only show the war, but also depict with striking realism, the various aspects of military life, from enlistment to corporal punishment. If the suite bears the date Paris (and not Nancy) 1633, it is because the prints were made by the artist's compatriot and friend, Israël Henriet, who had, since 1629, the exclusive right to publish Callot's works, and was based in Paris.
A SUPERB COPY OF THIS SUITE WHICH IS AMONG THE MASTERPIECES OF ENGRAVING, LARGE MARGINS AND IN A FINE BINDING SIGNED BY LORTIC.
References: Meaume, 564 to 581; Lieure, 1339 to 1356.
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