Frontispiece, from the series Les Petites Misères de la guerre (The Small Miseries of War)
Abraham Bosse, French, 1602 - 1676
1636
Etching on laid paper
Sheet: 2 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. (5.7 × 11.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.991.50.2.1
Publisher
Israël Henriet, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, within cartouche, center: Misere de la guerre; faict / Par Iacques Callot. Et mise en / Lumiere par Israel Henriet. / A PARIS. / Avec Priuilege du Roy. / 1636.
Exhibition History
Fatal Consequences: Callot, Goya, and the Horrors of War, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 8-December 9, 1990.
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.82, no. 28.
Hillard T. Goldfarb and Reva Wolf, Fatal Consquences: Callot, Goya, and the Horrors of War, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1990, p. 82.
Provenance
Grosjean, Paris, October 27,1930; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, February 15, 1980, lot 846; sold to Adolph Weil Jr. (1915-1995), Montgomery, Alabama, 1980; given to present collection, 1991.
Catalogue Raisonne
Lieure 1332; Meaume 557
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