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Jacques Callot (; c.1592 – 14 March 1635) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the north-eastern border of France, southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the southern Netherlands). 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, Gypsies, beggars, as well as court life. He also etched many religious and military images, and many prints featured extensive landscapes in their background. ==Life and training== Callot was born and died in Nancy, the capital of Lorraine, now in France. He came from an important family (his father was master of ceremonies at the court of the Duke), and he often describes himself as having noble status in the inscriptions to his prints. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a goldsmith, but soon afterward travelled to Rome where he learned engraving from an expatriate Frenchman, Philippe Thomassin. He probably then studied etching with Antonio Tempesta in Florence, where he lived from 1612 to 1621. More than 2,000 preparatory drawings and studies for prints survive, but no paintings by him are known, and he probably never trained as a painter. During his period in Florence he became an independent master, and worked often for the Medici court. After the death of Cosimo II de' Medici during 1621, he returned to Nancy where he lived for the rest of his life, visiting Paris and the Netherlands later during the decade. He was commissioned by the courts of Lorraine, France and Spain, and by publishers, mostly in Paris. Although he remained in Nancy, his prints were distributed widely through Europe; Rembrandt was a keen collector of them. Callot's sketches of "Grotesque Dwarves" was to inspire Derby porcelain and other companies to create pottery figures known as "Mansion House Dwarves" or "Grotesque Dwarves". The former title comes from a father and son who were paid to wander around the Mansion House in London wearing oversized hats that contained advertisements.〔(Mansion House Dwarves ), Digital Hybridity, Derby University, accessed August 2011〕 Varie Figure Gobbi - Series of 21 etchings, 1616 File:1620 Callot Der Maskierte mit verdrehten Beinen anagoria.JPG|Masked Dwarf with Contorted Legs File:1620 Callot Zwergkrüppel mit Kapuze anagoria.JPG|Crippled Dwarf with Hood File:1620 Callot Der Zwerg mit dem dicken Bauch anagoria.JPG|The Fat Dwarf File:1620 Callot Der Zwerg mit dem Buckel anagoria.JPG|The Hunchbacked Dwarf File:1620 Callot Zwerg mit Hängebauch und hohem Hut anagoria.JPG|The Potbellied Dwarf with the Tall Hat File:1620 Callot Zwerg mit Violine anagoria.JPG|Dwarf with Violin 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jacques Callot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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