Soldiers looting and pillaging an inn in the countryside after they refused to pay for their board and lodging. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.

  • Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.
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[1730]
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44106i
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The suite of eighteen prints entitled "Miseries and misfortunes of war" (Les misères et les malheurs de la guerre) in which soldiers are shown fighting, raping and pillaging and some are subsequently punished or gravely wounded and only few are rewarded for victory, was published by Callot's friend Israël Henriet in 1633

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[Amsterdam] : Leonardus Schenk, [1730]

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; sheet 8.1 x 18.6 cm

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Ces courages bruteaux dans les hosteleries, du beau nom couvrent leurs voleries ... Lettering continues in French underneath the print describing the event in verse Translation of the poem: These brutal characters cloak their thefts and hostelries with the fair name of booty. Enemies of repose, they purposely pick quarrels to avoid paying the host and seize even the mugs. Thus they take a fancy to other people's property when they have been made drunk and served as they desired Bears number bottom right : 4

References note

Jules Lieure, Jacques Callot, 8 vols, Paris 1924-1927, nos. 1339-1356

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Wellcome Collection 44106i

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