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Les Mourants sur le bord des routes [The Dying Along the Roadside], from Les Grandes misères de la guerre [The Great Miseries of War]
Les Mourants sur le bord des routes [The Dying Along the Roadside], from Les Grandes misères de la guerre [The Great Miseries of War]

Les Mourants sur le bord des routes [The Dying Along the Roadside], from Les Grandes misères de la guerre [The Great Miseries of War]

Primary (Nancy, France, 1592–1635)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1633
MediumEtching
DimensionsSheet: 7 5/16 × 11 1/4 in. (18.5 × 28.6 cm)
Additional Dimension: 3 1/4 × 7 5/16 in. (8.3 × 18.6 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 2000.13.16
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2000.13.16/18
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The Miseries of War is Callot’s most famous series and a monument in the history of printmaking. Remarkable enough in narrative invention and technical accomplishment, it is a fundamental example of current events as the subject of high art, a timeless representation of the course of human aggression, and an inspiration for every later approach to the subject, from Goya to Picasso
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