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Title

'Les Gueux' or 'Les Mendiants'. Les Deux Pèlerins (The Two Pilgrims)

Artist

Jacques Callot

Physical Description

Two rough figures dominate the composition with a lightly etched landscape behind them. Both figures hold a staff and each is dressed in ragged clothes. In addition, the scallop shell, indicating that they are pilgrims to the shrine of St. James the Greater at Santiago de Compostela, is visible on the brims of their hats, and on the left shoulder of the man standing to the right.

Artist Life Dates

1592/3-1635

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1622-1628

Accession Number

1949/1.146

Medium and Support

etching on laid paper

relevance

rank 12.07664

Primary Keywords

beggars

peasants

pilgrims

shell, sea

staffs (walking sticks)

Title

A Group of Eight Landscapes on Four Sheets

Artist

Franz Edmund Weirotter

Physical Description

TOP IMAGE: A river scene, with the river and scenery in the bottom 1/3 of image, and the skyfilling the top 2/3rds. A boat with two fisherman near shore in bottom left corner, and nother small pair of fishermen appear on bank in bottom center. To the right is a grove of trees, stretching from bottom right to top right. Distant mountains appear on the bottom left, as the river stretches into the background. An architectural structure - walls with perhaps dwellings on top - stretches along the riverbank on the left.

BOTTOM IMAGE. A river appears in the bottom right corner and streches into the central background. A path tops the left-hand bank, on which a group of three travelers, facing the viewer, walk in the bottom left corner of image. Two carry walking sticks. In the center stands a medieval pilgrimage marker, near whose base is a traveler in large hat with walking stick. Trees line the river on both the right and left sides, and in the left grove is a partially hidden thatched house.

Object Creation Date

1759

Accession Number

2007/2.115

Medium and Support

engraving in black ink on white Arches laid paper

relevance

rank 11.95078

Primary Keywords

dwellings

fisherman

genre scenes

landscapes

paths

pilgrims

riverbanks

travelers

Title

Empedocles

Artist

René Boyvin

Physical Description

A man wearing a tunic, cape and boots stands in a minimal landscape. His walking stick seems to be falling away from him at the right as the man points upwards toward the sun's rays, as well as extends his right hand towards fire at the lower left.

Artist Life Dates

1525-1598

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1539-1540

Accession Number

1990/1.189

Medium and Support

engraving on laid paper

relevance

rank 11.70678

Primary Keywords

capes (outerwear)

cloaks, inverness

engravings

fire

intaglio printing

philosopher

pilgrims

sun