L'Enrôlement des troupes (The Recruitment of Troops ; The Enlisting of the Troops), Plate 2 from the series Les Grandes Misères et malheurs de la guerre (The Large Miseries and Misfortunes of War)
Jacques Callot, French, 1592 - 1635
1633
Etching on laid paper
Plate: 2 15/16 × 7 5/16 in. (7.5 × 18.5 cm)
Sheet: 3 5/16 × 7 5/16 in. (8.4 × 18.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.991.8.2
Publisher
Israël Henriet, Paris
Geography/Culture
Europe, France
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Inscribed, in plate, within image, lower right: Israel ex. Cum. Priuilegio Regis; inscribed, in graphite, lower right margin: 2; inscribed, in graphite, on support, upper right: 244/18; inscribed, in graphite, on support, lower right: 1340; Watermark, lower center: [cut off] [under image] [indistinct]
Exhibition History
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.
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.
Fatal Consequences: Callot, Goya, and the Horrors of War, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 9-December 12, 1990.
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.
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.84, no. 36.
Goldfarb, Hilliard T., Wolf, Reva. "Fatal Consequences: Callot, Goya, and the Horrors of War." Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, page 28 (illustration) and page 83.
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 1340
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