Le Pillage d'une ferme (The Plundering of a Farmhouse), Plate 5 from the series Les Grandes Misères et malheurs de la guerre (The Great Miseries and Misfortunes of War)
Jacques Callot, French, 1592 - 1635
1633
Etching on paper
Plate: 3 1/4 × 7 5/16 in. (8.2 × 18.5 cm)
Sheet: 3 3/8 × 7 3/8 in. (8.6 × 18.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund
PR.983.30.1
Publisher
Israël Henriet, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, within image lower center: Israel ex. Cum Pruvil. Reg.; inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: Voyla les beaux exploits de ces coeurs [oe in ligature] inhumains / Ils rauagent partout rien nechappe a leurs mains; inscribed, in plate, lower center margin: L'un pour avoir de l'or, inuente des supplices, / L'autre à mil forfaicts anime ses complices;; inscribed, in plate, lower right margin: Et tous d'un mesme accord commettent mechamment / Le vol, le rapt, le meurtre, et le violement. 5
Exhibition History
Alfredo Jaar, The Eyes of Gutete Emerita, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 8-September 3, 2006.
Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 4-December 11, 2005.
Recent Acquisitions: Carracci to Warhol, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October-December, 1983.
Publication History
Katherine W. Hart, Alfredo Jaar, The Eyes of Gutete Emerita [brochure], Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. p. 1.
Barbara Thompson, Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005.
Provenance
R.E. Lewis, Inc., San Rafael, California; sold to present collection, 1983.
Catalogue Raisonne
Lieure 1343; Meaume 568
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