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Jacques Callot

Dying Soldiers by the Roadside, plate sixteen from The Miseries of War

1633
Etching on paper
8.1 × 18.6 cm (3.2 × 7.3 in)

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Inscribed: How lamentable is the luck of the poor soldier! When the war is over, his misfortune starts again. Then he is compelled to go begging, and his poverty arouses the laughter of the peasant, who curses him when he asks for alms and considers it an insult to see before him the object of the afflictions he endures.

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