Landscape
in or after 1635
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 8 × 6.4 cm (3 1/8 × 2 1/2 in.) sheet (irreg.): 10.9 × 20 cm (4 5/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
R.L. Baumfeld Collection
Accession Number
1969.15.154
Art Historical Context
This delicate etching, titled *Landscape*, was created after the designs of Jacques Callot, the renowned 17th-century French printmaker whose work profoundly influenced European graphic art. Produced in or after 1635—the year of Callot’s death—the print exemplifies how his compositions continued to circulate and inspire artists long after his lifetime. Though not executed by Callot himself, the work captures his characteristic attention to atmospheric detail and balanced composition within a remarkably compact format. Etching on laid paper allowed for fine, expressive lines that could convey ...
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...