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Combat at the foot of a tower
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Combat at the foot of a tower

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Plate: 8 3/8 × 13 3/16 in. (21.3 × 33.5 cm) Sheet: 9 5/8 × 14 3/8 in. (24.4 × 36.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jacques Courtois

1621–1676County of Burgundy

A specialist in battle paintings, he also painted religious and other scenes. As a teenager, Courtois left France for Italy with his young brother, Guillaume. He drew military campaigns, then studied in Bologna, Florence, and Siena, arriving in Rome by 1638. He worked primarily in Italy. He joined the Jesuit order in 1657.