Karel Dujardin
Dutch, c. 1622-1678
The Battlefield
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Karel Dujardin
Dutch, c. 1622-16781652
The Battlefield
Karel Dujardin Dutch, c. 1622-1678 →etchingprint
Date
1652
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 16.6 × 19.8 cm (6 9/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 17.1 × 20.4 cm (6 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection
Karel Dujardin, like Jan Both, painted Italian views and made over 50 prints after he returned from Italy
in about 1652. In this print, the plundering troops inspect the dead or dying on an unspecified battlefield. It was extolled by the 20th-century English etcher Walter Sickert as "perhaps the etching of the world ... for clarity, concision and vivacity."
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