La Pendaison (The Hanging), Jacques Callot

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Jacques Callot, La Pendaison (The Hanging)
Jacques Callot, La Pendaison (The Hanging)
Jacques Callot
La Pendaison (The Hanging)
1633
Jacques Callot
1592–1635
La Pendaison (The Hanging), 1633
Portfolio/Series title: Les Miseres et Les Mal-Heures de la Guerre
Where object was made: France
Material/technique: etching
Dimensions:
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 82 x 185 mm
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 3 1/4 x 7 5/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: Museum purchase
Accession number: 1968.0019.11
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture," Mar-2009, Steve Goddard This etching from a series of eighteen prints concerning The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) offers an early view of a hanging tree. Although it uses a metaphor similar to that in “Strange Fruit,” a song about a lynching immortalized by jazz singer Billie Holiday, the first stanza of this print’s inscription clearly identifies the scene as one of justice, not of murder: A la fin ces Voleurs infâmes et perdue, Comme fruits malheureux a cet arbre pendue (In the end these wretched and ruined plunderers Hang from this tree like ill-fated fruit)

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