Print Description
This print shows a view on a landscape with five beggars in landscape near a bridge. Two of them paralyzed, walking with sticks. One from a series, numbered 4.
Made by Louise Magdeleine Horthemels after Jacques Callot.
Medium: Engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 18.6 x 8.8 cm (7.32 x 3.46 inch). Image size: 18 x 8 cm. (7.09 x 3.15 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Creases. Brownish. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
LANDSCAPE-BEGGARS-POOR-PARALYZED-BRIDGE | RBOS-A10-24
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This print was published ca 1720.
Biography engraver: Louise Magdeleine Horthemels (1686 ? 2 October 1767), was a French engraver, the mother of Charles-Nicolas Cochin. She is also sometimes credited under her married name of Louise Madeleine Cochin or Madeleine Cochin.
Biography artist: Jacques Callot (1592-16RB-35) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine. He is an important person in the development of the old master print. He made more than 1,400 etchings that chronicled the life of his period, featuring soldiers, clowns, drunkards, Romani, beggars, as well as court life. He also etched many religious and military images, and many prints featured extensive landscapes in their background.
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