Dramatic Historical Scenes

Fine etchings portraying dramatic historical and mythological moments, often featuring elaborate characters and dynamic compositions.

Jacques Callot, French (1592-1635), The Flight into Egypt, in or after 1630, etching

Mary, Helped by Two Angels, Follows Joseph with the Donkey, plate 25 from The Flight into Egypt. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo; Italian, 1727-1804. Date: 1752-1753. Dimensions: 190 x 250 mm. Etching on paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto offering their crowns to the arms of Cardinal Borghese. Artist: Simone Cantarini (Italian, Pesaro 1612-1648 Verona). Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 12 5/16 × 17 1/4 in. (31.2 × 43.8 cm). Date: ca.1642-1643. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Leapfrog. Artist: After François Boucher (French, Paris 1703-1770 Paris); Jacques Gabriel Huquier (French, Paris 1730-1805 Shrewsbury). Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 9 5/16 × 13 7/16 in. (23.6 × 34.2 cm). Publisher: Buldet (French). Date: mid to late 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Milk maid; Landscapes with shepherds to Berchem. A shepherdess milk in a landscahp.

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man, 1640 1647 Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man

. A young man standing in a landscape plays a basgamba. A woman, seen on the back, is sitting with a flute in her hand next to him. The print is part of a 53-part series of prints to paintings by Titian and Veronese.

Plate 6: two seated pilgrims and one laying down to left, a tower in ruins to right in the background, from 'Caprice faict par de la Bella' ca. 1642 Stefano della Bella Italian. Plate 6: two seated pilgrims and one laying down to left, a tower in ruins to right in the background, from 'Caprice faict par de la Bella' 412281

Italy, Fontana, Giovanni Battista, Life of Romulus and Remus, Fratres deurbisinnitio litem dirimunt, The dispute between Romulus and Remus about the location of their city, Remus stands on the Aventine and Romulus on the Palatine. Both are waiting for a sign from the gods. Six vultures appear to Remus, twelve to Romulus. The gods were therefore more favorable to Romulus. In this way, the location for the new city is determined. The print is part of an album., print, picture, album sheet, prints, pictures, height 140 mm, width 182 mm, Italian, 1524 - 1587-09-25, print maker, printmaker, 1572 - 1573, paper, etching, etchings, Work conception, after own design by

Jacques Callot, French (1592-1635), The Flight into Egypt, in or after 1630, etching

Men, women and children in hilly landscape, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881 - 1934 print A group of men, women and children, are around two trees. A man and a woman with baggage luggage are walking right in the foreground. Left of them a lying, praying woman. At the rock on the right in the background, a few more figures. Japanese paper (handmade paper) etching wandering communities. container of textile material: bag, sack. one person praying

Children of Bethel, Constantijn à Renesse, 1653 print Punishment of the children who mock Elisa. Elisa standing at the edge of a forest, two bears attack the children. paper etching / drypoint two bears come out of the woods and tear the children who were mocking Elisha to pieces

Chalk and feather drawing in sepia by Francesco Fontebasso depicting John the Baptist delivering a sermon.

Myth of Jupiter and the donkey, Dirk Stoop, John Ogilby, 1665.

Rest on the flight to Egypt, Laurent de la Hire, 1616 - 1656 print France paper etching rest on the flight into Egypt. feeding a baby

The Destruction of Pharaoh in the RedSea. Woodcutter: Unknown After: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Italian, Venice, ca. 1488-1576

Emblem: baldness, Jan Goeree, 1723 print An emblem with in the foreground a man and a woman who mourn for the death of their child. The man has covered his head. He cut his hair. It lies as a sacrifice next to his child's corpse. On the other side of the corpse the mother, who takes off her hair out of sorrow. Both are in front of a bare tree. In the background on the left the prophet Elisa, who takes revenge on the children who had called him for bald head. In the background on the right the destruction of Jerusalem by Emperor Vespasian and his son Titus. print maker: Amsterdampublisher: Amsterdampublisher: Dordrecht paper engraving baldness. pulling out one's hair (+ grieving, mourning, lamenting, bewailing). hair-cutting. two bears come out of the woods and tear the children who were mocking Elisha to pieces. Emperor Titus destroying the temple of Jerusalem. (story of) the emperor Vespasian - aggressive relationships of person from classical history. child

Simone Cantarini after Veronese, Mars, Venus and Cupid Mars, Venus and Cupid

Two Women Crossing a Stream. Artist: Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610-1664 Florence). Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 5 11/16 × 4 13/16 in. (14.4 × 12.3 cm). Date: ca. 1646. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Hague, Wtenbrouck, Moyses van, Mercurius and Argus, Mercurius lulls Argus to sleep, verso lower left - stamped, Mercurius, looks at the sleeping Argus. He has a flute in his hand. Scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Met. I, 682-687)., print, prints, height 131 mm, width 185 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1600 - 1647, print maker, printmaker, 1618 - 1628, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process)

Two workers with rope and shelves, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881 - 1934 print Two workers with hats, one sitting and the other standing. The sitting man binds a rope around a tree trunk. The standing man holds a stack of demolition wood. In the background, two workers pry with a rod under a rectangular object. paper engraving working class, labourers. plank, board ~ building material. tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: rope

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, The Holy Family Disembarking, published 1753 The Holy Family Disembarking

Satyr Family, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, in or Before c. 1750 print Italy paper etching satyr(s) (in general)

Jacques Callot, Peasant with Sack, c 1622 Peasant with Sack

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Christ PAA Oliebjerget, About 1657

L'incendie du hameau , Fires, Cities & towns, Victims, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

Copres of Egypt as a hermit, Johann Sadeler (I), Raphaël Sadeler (I), Maerten de Vos, 1583 - 1588

France, French Crown, Paris, Mariette, Pierre (I), Bella, Stefano della, Twelve landscapes, Various landscapes, Peasant and peasant woman in a landscape, verso - stamped, A landscape with a bridge over a river. In the foreground on the left a seated peasant with a dog and a standing peasant woman in conversation., print, prints, height 88 mm, width 139 mm, Italian, 1610-05-18 - 1664-07-27, print maker, printmaker, 1620 - 1664, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, French, 1596 - 1657, publisher, uitgever van privilege

Offer van Isaak, anonymous, after Rouse, 1600 - 1699 print Abraham is about to sacrifice his son Isaac. An angel stops him. paper etching when Abraham has his hand raised to kill Isaac, God or the hand of God restrains Abraham's hand

Stefano Della Bella, The Flight into Egypt, probably 1662 The Flight into Egypt

A street musician plays the violin for a young maid. Two dogs dance around him., Street musician with violin and dancing dog, print maker: Jan Chalon, Jan Chalon, Northern Netherlands, (possibly), 1748 - 1795, paper, etching, drypoint, h 66 mm × w 52 mm

Rome, Pinelli, Bartolomeo, New collection of costume prints from Rome, Costume prints with figures from Rome and its surroundings, Briganti avvertiti che si avicina la forza per sorprenderli, Bandits are warned, Four bandits are warned by a woman and child. The print is part of an album., print, prent, albumblad, prints, prenten, height 203 mm, width 272 mm, Italian, 1781-11-20 - 1835-04-01, print maker, printmaker, 1819 - 1823, paper, papier, etching, etchings, intermediary draughtsman

Smell, anonymous, 1600 - 1670 print A man gives over. Two men squeeze their nose closed because the puke stinks. Under the show a two -way verse in Dutch. The print is part of a series of five prints with the five senses. Netherlands paper etching smell, smelling (one of the five senses). vomiting

Drawing, Alexander the Great and Diogenes; Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on thick white laid paper ; (irregular): 55.2 x 77 cm (21 3/4 x 30 5/16 in.) Mat: 71.1 x 91.4 cm (28 x 36 in.) Frame H x W x D: 81.3 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm (32 x 40 x 1 in.)

Lithograph by Eugène Delacroix from 1843 depicting Hamlet and Horatio standing before the gravediggers in Act V, Scene I of Shakespeare's play, printed on Chinese paper.

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No. 67. Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682. Prints. 1777 - 1819. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Drawing, French

Two Turkish traders on the quay, Stefano della Bella, 1656 print Two Turkish traders look at ships at sea while they are resting on the quay. paper etching merchant, salesman. Asiatic races and peoples: Turks. harbour. ships (in general) - CC - more than one ship

Copper engraving by Albrecht Altdorfer from around 1515-1520 depicting Saint Christophorus carrying the child Jesus, showing figures, gesture, and landscape elements.

Mercury and Battus, Crispijn van de Passe (II), After Claes Moeyaert, 1630 - 1702 print paper engraving / etching Mercury and Battus; Battus is bribed with a heifer as hush-money

Le Paysan Portant son Sac (The Peasant Carrying his Sack), from Les Caprices Series B, The Nancy Set 1617-20 Jacques Callot French. Le Paysan Portant son Sac (The Peasant Carrying his Sack), from Les Caprices Series B, The Nancy Set. Les Caprices Series B. Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592-1635 Nancy). 1617-20. Etching; first state of two (Lieure). Prints

Joseph Adoring the Child, who is Held in Mary's Arms, plate nine from The Flight into Egypt. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo; Italian, 1727-1804. Date: 1753. Dimensions: 189 x 247 mm. Etching on paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.

People at a wooden building, Jan Goeree, 1704 - 1727 drawing On the left in the foreground is a man with loincloth, sword and shield. On the right in the foreground two women with a child. There is a child next to the man. The figures have strikingly stretched earlobes. The standing child seems to have a weight on the right ear. In the background a wooden building and a few other figures. Design for a book illustration. paper. ink. chalk pen / brush exploration, expedition, voyage of discovery West India

Moses defending the daughters of Jethro 1732-50 Pietro Monaco. Moses defending the daughters of Jethro. After Giovanni Antonio Fumiani (Italian, Venice 1643-1710 Venice). 1732-50. Etching and engraving. Prints

Joseph Carrying Jesus in his Arms, from the series Idee pittoresche sopra la fuga in Egitto (Flight intoEgypt). Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, Venice, 1727-1804

Two robbers attack a rider with axes, Hans Ulrich Frank, 1643 print paper etching traveller(s) attacked by robber(s). tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: axe

Flight into Egypt: The Holy Family Arriving at the Bank of the River, 1750-53. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727-1804). Etching;

Guilielmus, pl. 27 of 30 from the series Sylvae Sacrae (Hermits inLandscapes). Publisher: Rafael Sadeler I, Flemish, 1560-1628 After: Maarten de Vos, Flemish, 1532-1603 Publisher: Johann Sadeler I, Flemish, 1550-1600

Franz Edmund Weirotter after Étienne de Lavallée Poussin, Nella Venuta in Roma pl 1, 1764 Nella Venuta in Roma: pl. 1

The Virgin and Child with Joseph, from the series Idee pittoresche sopra la fuga in Egitto (Flight intoEgypt). Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, Venice, 1727-1804

Philosopher with book and soldier and man at statue; Capricci.

Mercury andArgus. Artist: Moyses Matheusz van Uyttenbroeck, Dutch, ca. 1595/1600-1646

Cartouche puts WAPNES, Louis Germain, Jacques-François Chéreau, After Jean Charles Delafosse, 1771 print A cartouche surrounded by shields, weapons, a crown, a helmet and a fire pot. Paris paper etching / engraving ornament ~ cartouche. weapons

Three shepherdesses rest under a tree. They are reading letters. A young shepherd walks along the road and chats with them, Meeting of shepherd and shepherdess, print maker: Andries van Buysen (Sr.), (mentioned on object), Andries van Buysen (Sr.), (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1723, paper, etching, engraving, h 142 mm × w 93 mm

The Botany Lesson 1804 Jean Jacques de Boissieu French. The Botany Lesson. Jean Jacques de Boissieu (French, Lyons 1736-1810 Lyons). 1804. Etching with drypoint; first state of four. Prints

Landscape with Horsemen. Dated: 1646. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: STEFANO DELLA BELLA.

Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727-1804, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, from the series Idee pittoresche sopra la fuga in Egitto (Flight intoEgypt), Etching, platemark: 19.2 × 24 cm (7 9/16 × 9 7/16 in.), Italian, 18thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

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Worker who has a rope celebrated, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881 - 1934 print A worker who wears a hat and boots has a rope celebrated. In the background a shovel, a tub, a fence, a hut and a machine. Among other things, the head of the worker has been added to this third state of the print. On Verso a chalk drawing of the worker. paper. pencil. chalk engraving working class, labourers. tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: rope

Odysseus and Telemachus in the hut of Emaeus, Theodoor van Thulden, After Francesco Primaticcio, 1632 - 1633 print Odysseus and Telemachus eat in the hut of the boar herer Emaeus. Minerva is at the door. Paris paper etching / engraving Telemachus and Ulysses meet in Eumaeus' hut (Homer, Odyssey XVI)

Rome, Pinelli, Bartolomeo, New collection of costume prints from Rome and its environs, Costume prints with figures from Rome and its environs, Costumi di Civita Castellana, Family from Civita Castellana, Landscape with a young man and a child sitting on a donkey. Next to the donkey stands a young woman carrying a basket. The print is part of an album., print, prent, albumblad, prints, prenten, height 204 mm, width 282 mm, Italian, 1781-11-20 - 1835-04-01, print maker, printmaker, 1819 - 1819, paper, papier, etching, etchings, intermediary draughtsman

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), the trip from Jacob and Rachel to the land of Chanaan (A. de Vesme 1; Dutuit 107 ) (Main title). Etching. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Two huntsmen in a clearing are surrounded by gypsies who read their palms as a decoy for stealing their belongings. Etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after B. North.

Willemynken is in the mud between the cows and Duyfken points the right way; Duyfkens and Willemrykens Pilgrimagie to Haren Loved within Irevssalem.

Flight into Egypt: The Holy Family Leaving the Shore, 1750-53. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727-1804). Etching;

France, French crown, Bella, Stefano della, Animali, Animals, Two women crossing a river behind a herd, verso - stamped, Two shepherdesses, one with a child, crossing a river behind a herd of cattle., print, prints, height 146 mm, width 139 mm, Italian, 1610-05-18 - 1664-07-27, print maker, printmaker, 1620 - 1664, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, after own design by, granter of privilege

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), suite of twelve landscapes. Two peasants, one on foot the other on horseback, spend a ford. Second number of a suite of 12 rooms. (A. de Vesme 770; Dutuit 147) (main title). Etching. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

The Holy Family Preparing to Embark. Dated: published 1753. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.

Proclamation to the shepherds, c. 1660 drawing Zwolle paper. ink. chalk brush

Two Turks, a yard with boats in the background D, print maker: Johann Wilhelm Baur, Johann Wilhelm Baur, Johann Wilhelm Baur, Rome, 1636, paper, etching, h 79 mm - w 109 mm

Shepherd with herd in a ruin, Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1740 print Netherlands (possibly) paper etching landscape with ruins. herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.. herd, flock

The flood; Paintings in the Loggia of Rafaël. The flood flooded the country. People and animals are swallowed through the water. People try to escape the upward water.

. Cacus is working in a landscape at a water pool to steal a number of cattle from Hercules. Cacus draws one of the three cows shown to his tail. In addition to Cacus, nine other figures are shown.

Two riders in conversation, Georg Philipp Rugendas (i), 1676 - 1742 print paper etching riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman. landscape with ruins

. Argus makes, leaning over the cow io, a questioning gesture to Mercury. Scene from Ovid 'Metamorphoses (with. I, 679-680).

Illustration No. 9 (from 12) to the Song Ch. H. Hölty 'Ego Elegie Auf a Landmirl (Elegance on the Fate of a Rural Girl), Posted in the Publishing House: Small Taschen Calender on the common year 1795, Myth of copper gzieret and and given to Berlin. Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus (1726 1801)

The Holy Family Entering the Boat with the Help of the Angels, plate sixteen from The Flight into Egypt. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo; Italian, 1727-1804. Date: 1753. Dimensions: 181 x 239 mm. Etching on paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Cartouche with weapons; X Suits the Cartels and Trophées; Iie Volume de l'oeuvre de J. Ch. Delafosse (...). A cartouche surrounded by shields, weapons, a crown, a helmet and a fire pot.

Peak Passes verändert in een Vogel; The Peak of Circe, of the intercourse of which are an abomination; The Metamorphoses or transformations; Metamorfosen Van Ovidius.Circe punish poicos by changing him into a bird. There is a boat behind Passes. Standard undermarge for the title.

A cheerful company in a lush garden. A cheerful company in a lush garden. Central to a standing (singing) Figure with three-sitting women. On the left on the ground a lute, people in the background. Numbered at the bottom left: 13.

Journey of Jacob and Rachel to the land of Canaan, Rachel directs a horse towards the left, various other animals follow ca. 1643-48 Stefano della Bella Italian. Journey of Jacob and Rachel to the land of Canaan, Rachel directs a horse towards the left, various other animals follow 410392

Landscape with a man who drains a snake; The snake.

Claude Lorrain, The Ford (Le passage du gué), 1634 The Ford (Le passage du gué)

Illustration for a Book: Cardinal Receiving a General at a City Gate. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696-1770 Madrid). Dimensions: 2-15/16 x 6-1/8 in. (7.5 x 15.5 cm). Series/Portfolio: See Metropolitan Museum of Art acc. nos. 59.600.176 - 59.600.212. Date: 1696-1770. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Mercury and Argus, Cornelis Brouwer, After Adriaen van de Velde, 1741 - 1803 print Mercury and Argus with cattle on a stream. Argus fell asleep. The print is loose in an album, see page 132. Amsterdam paper etching Mercury lulls Argus into sleep by making music. Mercury beheads Argus

Genre scene, two, from the "Rest" series; Bloemaert, Cornelis II (Ca 1603-1692), Bloemert, Abraham (1566-1651); after 1625 (1625-00-00-1630-00-00);

. Landscape with a woman, seen on the back with a shepherd staff in her hand, at a tree stump. With her left arm she points to the distance.

S. Germanique (St. Germanicus), January 19th, from Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year) 1636 Jacques Callot French This print is part of a series comprised of a title page, frontispiece, and 122 plates. Each of these 122 plates contains four oval scenes depicting Saints and Religious Events for each day of the year. This etching was originally one of four oval scenes on a plate in the series.. S. Germanique (St. Germanicus), January 19th, from Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year). Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année. Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592-1635 Nancy). 1636. Etching; second state of two (Lieure). Israël Henriet (French, Nancy ca. 1590-1661 Paris). Prints

Bliżej Kultury Berger, Daniel (1744 1824), Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus (1726 1801)

Smell, anonymous, 1689 - 1720 print A man gives over. Two men squeeze their nose closed because the puke stinks. Under the show a two -way verse in Dutch. The print is part of a series of five prints with the five senses. print maker: Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper etching smell, smelling (one of the five senses). vomiting

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, The Flight into Egypt, 1640 1645 The Flight into Egypt

Woman, Satyr Child, and Goat in a Landscape. Dated: published 1785. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

Title page for the Europische Mercury of 1734, 1734 print Title page for the Europische Mercurius, for the year 1734. Mercury and father Time with the English unicorn and the Netherlands Lion in a number of allegorical animal performances. A war scene on the back grorn. print maker: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper etching / engraving

Wolf as a shepherd. Bertrand, Antoine-Valérie (1823-1882), graphic artist, Drukarnia Noskowskiego (Warszawa ; wydawnictwo ; 1871-1914), publishing house, Doré, Gustave (1832-1883), draughtsman, cartoonist, Noskowski, Jan (1832-1881), publisher

A Meeting of Monopolizers, or the Good Effect of Peace, Charles Williams, active 1796-1830, British, 1801, Etching

Bresdin, Rodolphe, Les chasseurs surpris par la mort, Two hunters surprised by Death, verso bottom center - stamped, Landscape with two hunters with their prey of shot rabbits standing by a hedge. They are frightened by Death crawling over the ground like a skeleton. One hunter loses his gun and the other aims his weapon. A dog stands behind this hunter with its tail between its legs. An owl sits at the top of a tree and the gnarled trunk shows faces. In the distance to the right is a city. Above the scene is the text Revue Fantaisiste., print, prints, verso middle - stamped, height 140 mm, width 80 mm, height 222 mm, width 160 mm, French, 1822-08-13 - 1885-01-14, print maker, 1857 - 1857, third quarter 19th century, chine collé, etching, Work conception, after own design of, 1861 - 1861

Jacques Callot, The Betrayal, c 1624 1625 The Betrayal

Farmer on horseback and farmer's wife cross the river, Stefano della Bella, 1620 - 1664 print A landscape with a bridge over a river. In the foreground a farmer's wife and a farmer's wife on foot that cross the river. print maker: Francepublisher: ParisFrance paper etching landscapes. landscape with bridge, viaduct or aqueduct. farmers - AA - female farmer, farmer's wife. crossing a river

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Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), game of fables. Jupiter and Europe. Twenty-sixth issue of a sequence of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 496; Dutuit 116) (main title), 1644. Etch. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

La Caverne de Brigands (The Cave of Thieves), from Les Caprices Series B, The Nancy Set 1617-20 Jacques Callot French. La Caverne de Brigands (The Cave of Thieves), from Les Caprices Series B, The Nancy Set. Les Caprices Series B. Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592-1635 Nancy). 1617-20. Etching; first state of two (Lieure). Prints

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