12 examples of callot in sentences

There is also a large and very curious painting of a fair, by Callot, and an Italian print of it.

Sometimes an old print comes to our aid; I have seen many a spot lit up at once with picturesque imaginations, by a reminiscence of Callot, or Sadeler, or Paul Brill.

"] [Note 5: Callot, or Sadeler, or Paul Brill.

Jacques Callot was an eminent French artist of the XVII century, born at Nancy in 1592, died 1635.

Fac-simile of a Copper-plate by Callot.]

From an Engraving by Callot.]

The principal strokes of absence of mind will always be the same; and there are only those striking touches which are fit for a comedy, of which, the end is painting after nature, but with strength and sprightliness, like the designs of Callot.

The painter Callotwho does not know the name, at least from Hoffmann's "in Callot's manner?"has given a few excellent pictures of Italian beggars.

By the canal road between the Venern and Vigen, on the bare, dry rocky plain there stood, like beauty's thistles in that poor landscape, a couple of beggar-boys, so ragged, so tattered, so picturesquely dirty, that we thought we had Callot's originals before us, or that it was an arrangement of some industrious parents, who would awaken the traveller's attention and benevolence.

Callot, Emile, Civilization et Civilizations, Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1954.

But in addition to the tremblings they occasioned, beyond the terrible skill of this man, the extraordinary life which animates his characters, one discovered, among his astonishing, swarming throngsamong his mobs of people delineated with a dexterity which recalled Callot, but which had a strength never possessed by that amusing daubercurious reconstructions of bygone ages.

CALLOT, JACQUES, engraver and etcher, born at Nancy; his etchings, executed many of them at the instance of the Grand-duke of Tuscany and Louis XIII. of France, amounted to 1600 pieces, such as those of the sieges of Breda and Rochelle, which are much admired, as also those of the gipsies with whom he associated in his youth (1593-1633).

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