Plate 7: shock of a cavalry
Jacques Courtois
1635–60
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 4 5/8 × 6 1/2 in. (11.8 × 16.5 cm) Sheet: 7 9/16 × 9 3/4 in. (19.2 × 24.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Carl J. Ulmann, 1929
Accession Number
29.38.25
About the Artist
Jacques Courtois · 1621–1676
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.