4th Dec, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST
After Callot, Jaques
De Droeve Ellendigheden van den Oorloogh seer aerdigh en konstigh afgebeeldt door Jaques Callot. Loreijns Edelman, 1730. Oblong 12mo, half calf over marbled boards, upper board and pre-lims detached but present; eng. tit. and 17 plates.
Callot's most famous suite, Les Misères et malheurs de la guerre was produced in 1633 in Lorraine. It was created as a response to Richelieu's invasion of Lorraine during the Thirty Years War. It remains a brutally unflinching statement on a terrible and destructive conflict, showing the soldiers pillaging the countryside, and their fates at the hands of their superiors or the angry mob - the lucky survive as cripples and beggars. Callot's work was a direct inspiration for Goya's similar series Los desastres de la Guerra.
Sold for £120
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