Les Grandes Misères de la guerre

Les Grandes Misères depict the destruction unleashed on civilians during the Thirty Years' War; no specific campaign is depicted, but the set inevitably recalls the actions of the army that Cardinal Richelieu sent in 1633 to occupy Callot's native Lorraine before annexing it to France. Callot was living in the capital, Nancy, at the time, though the prints were published, like most of his work, in Paris, with the necessary royal licence. The plates still exist, in a museum in Nancy, as do seven drawings of whole compositions, and many tiny studies for figures, with a large group in the Hermitage Museum. The general structure of the work and the details of the individual images can be interpreted as propagating the just, law-enforcing and crime-fighting regime of the Catholic French monarchy. ==Legacy==

The central image in what might be the first editorial cartoon is a parody of La Pendaison. In William Hogarth's early engraving Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme, the hanging tree is replaced by a wheel of fortune. Francisco Goya probably owned a set of Callot's etchings, and they are believed to have influenced his similar series, Los Desastres de la guerra (The Disasters of War), almost two centuries later. ==Gallery==

File:Title page, from the suite The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 1: Frontispiece File:Enrolling from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 2: ''L'enrôlement des troupes (Enrolling the troops'') File:Battle from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 3: La bataille (The battle) File:Raid from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 4: La maraude (The raid) File:Pillaging from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 5: Le pillage (Pillaging a house) File:Looting a Monastery from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 6: ''Dévastation d'un monastère (Looting a monastery'') File:Looting a village from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 7: ''Pillage et incendie d'un village (Looting and burning a village'') File:Robbery from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 8: Vol sur les grandes routes (Highway robbery) File:Arerst of offenders from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 9: Découverte des malfaiteurs (Arrest of the offenders) File:Strappado from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 10: ''L'estrapade, or Strappado'' File:Hanging from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 11: La pendaison (The Hanging) File:Firing squad from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 12: ''L'arquebusade, or Firing squad'' File:Stake from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 13: Le bûcher, or Burning at the stake File:Wheel from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 14: La roue, or Breaking wheel File:Hospital from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 15: ''L'hôpital (The hospital'') File:Beggars and dying from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 16: Les mendiants et les mourants (The beggars and the dying) File:Peasant revenge from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 17: La revanche des paysans (The peasants fight back) File:The awards from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg|Plate 18: Distribution des récompenses (Distribution of rewards) ==References==