Guido Reni (1575-1642), Giuseppe Maria Mitelli... Lot n° 38

Guido Reni, Giuseppe Maria Miteli, Saint Job being offered gifts. / Description: Saint Job being offered gifts, very large etching after a painting of Guido Reni (1575-1642), made by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718) in 1678, published in Bologna. References: Bertarelli 1940 / Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico (49),Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XIX.283.33). In excellent condition, etching printed on thin laid Italian paper, trimmed on and just in the margins. Blank part of 3-5 mm around the image. The four corners reinforced, restored and a small tear to the left middle restored. Otherwise very good. Very good dark impression with scratching lines of whiping the plate, only by early impressions.Also the very fine ruling lines to engarve the text clearly visible With a good watermark. / Dimensions: 49,9 cm x 31,7 cm In excellent condition, etching printed on thin laid Italian paper, trimmed on and just in the margins. Blank part of 3-5 mm around the image. The four corners reinforced, restored and a small tear to the left middle restored. Otherwise very good. Very good dark impression with scratching lines of whiping the plate, only by early impressions. Also the very fine ruling lines to engrave the text clearly visible. With a good watermark. / Literature: Lieure 1927 1340. I / III Meaume 1860 565 . 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 time, though the prints were published, like most of his work, in Paris, with the necessary royal licence. The plates still exist, in a museum in Nancy, as do seven drawings of whole compositions, and many tiny studies for figures, with a large group in the Hermitage Museum. Lieure 1927 / Jacques Callot (550) -- Meaume 1860 / Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jacques Callot (674.I) etching