La Distribution des récompenses (Distributution of Rewards), Plate 18 from the series Les Grandes Misères et malheurs de la guerre (The Great Miseries and Misfortunes of War)

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, within image lower right: Callot fecit Israel excudit.; inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: Cet exemple d'un Chef plein de reconnoisance, / Qui punit les méchans et les bons recompance.; inscribed, in plate, lower center margin: Doit picuer les soldats d'un aiguillon d'honneur, / Puis que la vertu, depend tout leur bonheur,; inscribed, in graphite, lower right margin: Et qu'ordinairement ils reçoiuent du Vice, / La honte, le mespris, et le dernier supplice. 18; inscribed, in graphite, on support, lower right: 1356 III/IV; Watermark, lower center: [cut off] [shield crowned with a fleur-de-lys]

Exhibition History

A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1998.

Fatal Consequences: Callot, Goya, and the Horrors of War, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 9-December 12, 1990.

Piranesi-Goya; Roma fantastica and the Sleep of Reason and Francisco Goya and Jake & Dinos Chapman: Disasters of War, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 27, 2001-March 17, 2002.

The Four Faces of War: Callot, Goya, Kollwitz and Bellows, The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, October 23-December 22, 2004.

Publication History

Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, listed, p.85, no. 52.

Goldfarb, Hilliard T., Wolf, Reva. "Fatal Consequences: Callot, Goya, and the Horrors of War." Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, page 35 (illustration) and page 85.

Provenance

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, 1975; Christie's, New York, November 2, 1983, lot 18 (bought in); sold to Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, privately after the sale; given to present collection, 1991.

Catalogue Raisonne

Lieure 1356

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