Landscape
in or after 1635
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 8.1 × 6.4 cm (3 3/16 × 2 1/2 in.) sheet (irreg.): 11.5 × 20 cm (4 1/2 × 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
R.L. Baumfeld Collection
Accession Number
1969.15.150
Art Historical Context
This delicate etching, titled *Landscape* and created after the masterful French printmaker Jacques Callot in or after 1635, captures the intricate beauty of 17th-century landscape art on a remarkably small scale. Measuring just 8.1 × 6.4 cm on the plate, it exemplifies the precision possible in printmaking during the Baroque era, when artists like Callot revolutionized etching techniques to produce highly detailed images from metal plates etched with acid. Callot (1592–1635), renowned for his vivid depictions of landscapes, festivals, and war scenes, influenced generations with his fine-line...
About the Artist
after Jacques Callot
**Jacques Callot (c. 1592–1635)**, the master whose designs inspired the works attributed "after Jacques Callot," was a pioneering French Baroque printmaker and draftsman born in Nancy, capital of the independent Duchy of Lorraine (now northeastern France). From a noble family—his father served as master of ceremonies and herald-at-arms to the Duke of Lorraine—young Callot was apprenticed to a gol...