1614
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Troops Forcing the Gate of a Town is a 1614 ink by Jacques Callot, a Baroque work, depicting Battle, held at National Gallery of Art.
This engraving shows soldiers and townspeople fighting at a wooden gate. The gate hangs half-open. Smoke drifts from a burning building behind them. Callot made this during the Thirty Years’ War. He worked small—just 11 by 16 inches—but packed in over 200 figures. His lines are sharp and precise, like a knife cutting through paper. Look up the technique called cross-hatching next.
Jacques Callot was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine.
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