Standard Bearer
Medium
woodcut on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 5.8 × 8.4 cm (2 5/16 × 3 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
R.L. Baumfeld Collection
Accession Number
1969.15.236
Art Historical Context
**Standard Bearer** is a delicate woodcut on laid paper created in 1621 by Edouard Eckman after the renowned French printmaker Jacques Callot. Measuring just 5.8 × 8.4 cm, this intimate print captures a standard bearer—a flag-carrying soldier—in meticulous detail, trimmed precisely to the plate mark.oused in the National Gallery Art's R.L. Baumfeld Collection (Department CG-E), it exemplifies the era's fascination with military motifs amid Europe's turbulent early 17th-century conflicts, including the lead-up to the Thirty Years' War. Jacques Callot, a Baroque master of etching known for his ...
About the Artist
Edouard Eckman after Jacques Callot
Edouard Eckman, a Flemish printmaker born around 1600, remains a somewhat enigmatic figure in art history, with his early life not well documented. Little is known about his training or formal education, though his oeuvre suggests familiarity with the vibrant printmaking traditions of the early Baroque period in Northern Europe. Active primarily in the second decade of the seventeenth century, Eck...