Giacomo Maria Giovannini (1667-1717), after Lodovico... Lot n° 39

Giacomo Maria Giovannini, Lodovico Carracci, Saint Benedict and two soldiers with prisoner, / Description: Etching/engraving made by Giacomo Maria Giovannini (1667-1717) ca 1694, after Lodovico Carracci (1555-1619), Saint Benedict and two soldiers with prisoner, published ca 1687-1717. From a rare series of 20 etchings of the life of Saint Benedict. In very good condition. Good dark/grey impression on thin laid paper trimmed on, just in the margins, image complete. / Dimensions: 37,0 cm x 21,1 cm In very good condition. Good dark/grey impression on thin laid paper trimmed on, just in the margins, image complete. / 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 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 (554.I) -- Meaume 1860 / Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jacques Callot (678.I) etching