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Jacques Callot

1592 - 1635

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Jacques Callot (French: [ʒak kalo]; c. 1592 – 1635) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Callot is the 296th most popular painter (down from 236th in 2019), the 923rd most popular biography from France (down from 776th in 2019) and the 68th most popular French Painter.

Jacques Callot is most famous for his etchings of the Thirty Years War.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jacques Callot ranks 296 out of 2,023. Before him are Philippe de Champaigne, Georges Rouault, John William Waterhouse, Martin Schongauer, Masolino da Panicale, and Giorgio Morandi. After him are H. R. Giger, François Clouet, Viktor Vasnetsov, Paul Delvaux, Erwin Bowien, and Willem Claesz. Heda.

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Among people born in 1592, Jacques Callot ranks 8. Before him are Hong Taiji, Shah Jahan, Pierre Gassendi, Wilhelm Schickard, Gerard van Honthorst, and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. After him are Peter Snayers, Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Catalina de Erauso, Saib Tabrizi, and Luarsab II of Kartli. Among people deceased in 1635, Jacques Callot ranks 4. Before him are Lope de Vega, Samuel de Champlain, and Wilhelm Schickard. After him are Şehzade Bayezid, Zacharias Janssen, John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Reza Abbasi, Elisabeth of Lorraine, Friedrich Spee, Joos de Momper, and Fakhr al-Din II.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Callot ranks 923 out of 6,770. Before him are Juliette Gréco (1927), Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573), Charles-Marie Widor (1844), Martin Bucer (1491), Victor of Aveyron (1793), and Léon Gambetta (1838). After him are Nicolas Oudinot (1767), Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy (1143), Ninon de l'Enclos (1620), Françoise Marie de Bourbon (1677), Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), and Claude Lelouch (1937).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jacques Callot ranks 68. Before him are Alexandre Cabanel (1823), Antoine-Jean Gros (1771), Henri Fantin-Latour (1836), Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725), Georges Rouault (1871), and Martin Schongauer (1450). After him are François Clouet (1510), Pierre Mignard (1612), Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836), Thomas Couture (1815), Paul Sérusier (1864), and Claude Joseph Vernet (1714).

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