Jacques Callot
L’Hopital (The Hospital) (plate 15)

ArtistFrench, 1592–1635
CultureFrench
Titles
  • L’Hopital (The Hospital) (plate 15)
  • from the series Les Grandes Misères et Malheus de la Guerre (The Grand Miseries of War)
Date1633
MediumEtching on laid paper, state II/III
DimensionsPlate: 3 1/4 × 7 3/8 in. (8.2 × 18.7 cm)
Sheet: 1/2 × 8 7/16 in. (1.2 × 21.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Leslie and Jack Blanton, Jr., in honor of Dr. Dena M. Woodall
Object number2022.99
Non exposé

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Provenance[Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints and Drawings, LLC and Susan Schulman Fine Art], as of 2019-2021; purchased by MFAH, 2021
Exhibition HistoryNone known for this impression
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in plate, lower left: Israel ex. cum priuil. Regis.
Recto: Inscribed by Mariette in plate, below image:

Fig. 1 Callot, Plate 15, inscription.

Voyez que c’est du monde et combien de hazars// Persecutent sans fin les enfants du Dieu
See that this is the world and how many dangers// They persecute the children of God without end

Les uns estropiez, se treinent sur la terre//Les autres plus heureux s’esleuent à la guerre
Some cripples drag each other on the ground//Others who are happier go to war

Les uns sur gibet meurent d’un coup fatal// Et les autres s’en vont du camp a l’hôpital
Some on gallows die of a fatal blow //And others leave the camp to the hospital

None known
Catalogue raisonnéMeaume 1860 578; Lieure 1927, 1353, state II/III; Marot; Choné

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Christ
Jacques Callot
1631
Etching on laid paper, state II/III
96.1764.2
The Virgin Mary
Jacques Callot
1631
Etching on laid paper, state II/III
96.1764.3
Saint Simon
Jacques Callot
1631
Etching on laid paper, state II/III
96.1764.14
Saint Mathew
Jacques Callot
1631
Etching on laid paper, state II/III
96.1764.15
Saint Thaddeus or Saint Judas
Jacques Callot
1631
Etching on laid paper, state II/III
96.1764.16
Saint James the Less
Jacques Callot
1631
Etching on laid paper, state II/III
96.1764.9
Saint Thomas
Jacques Callot
1631
Etching on laid paper, state II/III
96.1764.10
Saint Philip
Jacques Callot
1631
Etching on laid paper, state II/III
96.1764.11
Saint Bartholomew
Jacques Callot
1631
Etching on laid paper, state II/III
96.1764.12
Saint Matthias
Jacques Callot
1631
Etching on laid paper, state II/III
96.1764.13
Saint Peter
Jacques Callot
1631
Etching on laid paper, state II/III
96.1764.4
Saint Paul
Jacques Callot
1631
Etching on laid paper, state II/III
96.1764.5