La Revanche des paysans (The Peasants Avenge Themselves), Plate 17 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: Israel ex. [gap] Cum Priuil Reg.; inscribed, in graphite, lower right margin: 17.; inscribed, in graphite, on support, lower right corner: 1355 I/III; Watermark, center: [under image] [indistinct]

Label

While the majority of Callot’s series focuses on the abuses enacted by soldiers, this print features the civilian uprising against the troops. Dressed in ragged clothing and floppy hats that distinguish their social class, the peasants attack with only sticks and farm tools, forcing the soldiers to run for cover in the trees at left. In the right foreground, a peasant swings a baton at a fallen soldier who has already been skewered on a pitchfork. In the center, meanwhile, a farmer kneels over a man’s body, while holding up a handful of his intestines and entrails. Although the peasants’ resistance is successful, reversing the power dynamics of the rest of Callot’s series, they equal the soldiers in violence, such as the gore depicted in the print of an attack on a coach.

From the 2023 exhibition Recording War: Images of Violence 1500 – 1900, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Academic Programming

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.

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.

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.

Recording War: Images of Violence, 1500-1900, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 20-August 20, 2023.

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. 51.

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

Barbara Thompson, Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005.

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 1355

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