Editing Jacques Callot (section)

==''Miseries of War''==
{{Main|Les Grandes Misères de la guerre}}
[[File:The Hanging by Jacques Callot.jpg|thumb|upright=2.00|One of ''[[Les Grandes Misères de la guerre]]'']]
His most famous prints are his two series of prints each on "the Miseries and Misfortunes of War". These are 18 prints published during 1633, and the earlier and incomplete ''Les Petites Misères'' – referring to their sizes, large and small (though even the large set are only about 8&nbsp;x&nbsp;13&nbsp;cm). These images show soldiers pillaging and burning their way through towns, country and convents, before being variously arrested and executed by their superiors, lynched by peasants, or surviving to live as crippled beggars. At the end the generals are rewarded by their monarch. During 1633, the year the larger set was published, Lorraine had been invaded by the French during the [[Thirty Years' War]] and Callot's artwork is still noted with [[Francisco Goya]]'s ''[[Los Desastres de la Guerra]]'' (''The Disasters of War''), which was influenced by Callot – (Goya owned a series of the prints),<ref>Chase Maenius. ''The Art of War[s]: Paintings of Heroes, Horrors and History''. 2014. {{ISBN|978-1320309554}}</ref> as among the most powerful artistic statements of the inhumanity of war.