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Pillage and Burning of a Village, plate 7 from series The Large Miseries of War

Pillage and Burning of a Village, plate 7 from series The Large Miseries of War

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Jacques Callot

Callot’s series of prints was made at the height of the Thirty Years War and broke new ground by depicting war as almost unremittingly grim.
Artist
Jacques Callot
(French, 1592 - 1635)
Title
Pillage and Burning of a Village, plate 7 from series The Large Miseries of War
Date
1633
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
3 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. Image
Credit
Humanistic Foundation Fund purchase
Accession No.
63.4.12
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

around 1963, sold by P. and D. Colnaghi Ltd. (London, England) to University of Wisconsin-Madison; May 1968, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Madison Art Center. "Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings From The University of Wisconsin Collections." Madison, WI: The Madison Art Association, 1965.

  • Loaded Image, The: Printmaking as Persuasion: Chazen Museum of Art, 6/18/2011–10/30/2011
  • Northern Old Masters Prints from the Permanent Collection, 1400–1800: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/24/1994–11/27/1994
  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings from the University of Wisconsin Collections: Madison Art Center, 11/21/1965–12/11/1965
  • Old Master Prints: The Paine Art Center, 11/30/1963–1/7/1964

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