Soldiers Attacking Robbers
Medium
woodcut on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to block): 6 × 8.3 cm (2 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
R.L. Baumfeld Collection
Accession Number
1969.15.202
Art Historical Context
Behold *Soldiers Attacking Rob*, a dynamic 1621 woodcut on laid paper by Edouardman, faithfully reproducing an original design by the renowned French printmaker Jacques Callot. Measuring just 6 × 8.3 cm, this intimate print captures a chaotic skirmish between armed soldiers and desperate robbers, rendered in Callot's signature style of intricate, bustling compositions. Part of the National Gallery of Art's R. Baumfeld Collection ( CG-E), it exemplifies the era's fascination with dramatic, narrative scenes. Callot, a Baroque master active in the Duchy of Lorraine amid the brewing Thirty Years'...
About the Artist
Edouard Eckman after Jacques Callot
Edouard Eckman, a Flemish printmaker born around 1600, remains a somewhat enigmatic figure in art history, with his early life not well documented. Little is known about his training or formal education, though his oeuvre suggests familiarity with the vibrant printmaking traditions of the early Baroque period in Northern Europe. Active primarily in the second decade of the seventeenth century, Eck...