CALLOT, JACQUES. - ["LES GRANDES MISÈRES DE LA GUERRE" - "THE GREAT MISERIES OF THE WAR"]
Les Miseres et les Mal-Heurs De la Guerre. Representez Par Iacques Callot Noble Lorrain. Et mis en lumiere Par Israel son amy.
A Paris, 1633, Avec Privilege du Roy. 8vo-oblong. Binding measuring 18,5 x 29,5 cm, plates measuring app. 9 x 19 cm. Probably early 19th century boards, though paper over boards looks older. Gilt title-label of more recent date. Back a little scratched. All 18 engraved plates (incl. title) mounted. All plates in fine impressions and with wide margins ab. 0.5 cm. on all sides. Very few small brownspots. The plates numb. 1-18 (No. 2-17: Israel ex. cum Privil. Reg., No. 18 Callot fecit. Israel excudit).
¶ First edition, second state (arabic numbers in lower right corners and with the 6 verses in 3 lines by l'abbe Marolles on all, except on title). Brunet I:1489.
Callot is called the father of etching in France, and his "Miseries of the War" is considered his main work, and it was completed soon after the Cardinal Richelieu's devastating invasion of the Lorraine region and the capture of Callot's hometown, Nancy. Callot was one of the first great artists to practise the graphic art exclusively. His innovative series of prints documenting the horrors of War greatly influenced the socially conscious artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. For instance its themes and imagery were used as a source by Goya and he is acknowledged as equal to the three great: Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya. It is said that no one ever to such an extent possessed the talent of grouping a large number of figures in a small space, and of representing with two or three bold strokes the expression, action and peculiar features of each individual.
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