Jacques CALLOT Lot n° 39

Jacques Callot - Les Miséres de la guerre - 10 / Description: Extremely rare first state before the text and before the number (R.R.R.R. in Lieure) Signed: Israel excud Cum Privil Reg. . Les misères et les malheurs de la guerre The Miseries and Misfortunes of War The Strappado - L'Estrapade. . The 10th plate of the worldknown series (18 plates) , the masterpiece of Jacques Callot.. With the words of Lieure : 'one of the most beautiful works of callot of those known, admired and sought after worldwide. And this work will always be in fashion because it is universal, experienced in all times and in all countries.' / Dimensions: 8,20 x 18,60 cm / Condition: A fine detailed impression on a dence laid paper trimmed on the plate border.Tipped with four corners on a laid paper collectors sheet. Full image borderline and tread margins visible. With the still blanc text line typical for this extremely rare early state. / Literature: Lieure 1927 1348. I / III Meaume 1860 573 . Les Grandes Misères de la guerre or The Miseries and Misfortunes of War are a series of 18 etchings by French artist Jacques Callot (1592–1635), titled in full Les Misères et les Malheurs de la Guerre. Despite the grand theme of the series, the images are in fact only about 83 mm × 180 mm each, and are called the "large" Miseries to distinguish them from an even smaller earlier set on the same subject.The series, published in 1633, is Callot's best-known work and has been called the first "anti-war statement" in European art. . Les Grandes Misères depict the destruction unleashed on civilians during the Thirty Years' War; no specific campaign is depicted, but the set inevitably recalls the actions of the army that Cardinal Richelieu sent in 1633 to occupy Callot's native Lorraine before annexing it to France. Callot was living in the capital, Nancy, at the ti