Title:
The Siege of La Rochelle
Creator/Contributor:
Jacques Callot, French, 1592-1635
Date:
1628-1630
Identifier:
1971.34.1a-f
Format:
Print
Etching
46 1/2 x 54 1/4
Notes:
Catalogue raisonne: Lieure 655 ii/ii
Inscription: Recto, in plate, lower right sheet, "Jac. Callot fec" at l.r.; Friedrich August II's stamp (Lugt 971) at l.r.
of each sheet
Provenance: R. E. Lewis, San Francisco; Friedrich August II
Biography:
Jacques Callot created more than fourteen hundred etchings and engravings, ranging from intimate genre scenes to great, panoramic
battle scenes.
Subject:
France; battles; navies; bird's-eye views; landscapes (representations)