Jacques CallotFrance, 1592–1635Apostel Tomas
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Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
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- Source
- Les données de collection du musée lui-même
À propos de l’œuvre
In the museum's own words — the original
Tomas, ten voeten uit, een speer in de ene hand en een boek in de andere hand. Op de achtergrond rechts raakt Tomas de wond in Christus' zijde aan; op de achtergrond links is te zien hoe Tomas door soldaten met lansen wordt gedood. Deze prent is onderdeel van een reeks van 16 prenten, bestaande uit een titelblad en 15 portretten, voorstellende Christus, Maria en de apostelen.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- RP-P-OB-4765
What it shows
The apostle ThomasPossible attributes: book, chalice, girdle, heart, lance or spear, scroll, square, stonesDeath of Thomas: he is brought out of the city by four soldiers, who kill him with their lancesThomas touching or stretching out his hands to touch the wound in Christ's side, sometimes Christ leading Thomas' hand
Sources
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: the museum's own open data · obtenue il y a 6 jours
- Image : Rijksmuseum Amsterdam — public domain
Pendant ce temps, chez Jacques Callot
La vie entière1621–1635 · Lieu de travail
Nancy
1629–1630
Declines to serve Louis XIII
King Louis XIII of France offers Callot a place at his court, but the artist declines; by one account, as a patriot of Lorraine he could not forgive the king for the devastation of his homeland by French troops.
1629–1630
Lives and works in Paris
From 1629 Callot lives and works in Paris, where his clients include publishers, mostly Parisian; overall he is commissioned by the courts of Lorraine, France and Spain.
c. 1630
Meets Abraham Bosse
The meeting of the Parisian Abraham Bosse with Callot around 1630 makes Bosse his follower: he will later spread the master’s technical innovations across Europe in the first published manual of etching, translated into several languages.
1633
The French invasion of Lorraine
In the year the large series of the “Miseries of War” is published, Lorraine is invaded by the French during the Thirty Years’ War; Callot’s etchings of pillaging, executions and the lot of crippled beggars are counted among the most powerful artistic statements of the inhumanity of war and will later inspire Goya.
