17th century French printmaker Jacques Callot artwork featuring little men with swords and musical instruments

This is the first time we’ve ran a piece on a Baroque era printmaker. Curiously however, there are many aesthetic elements we wish to appropriate from that time as we define the parameters of the world of Zouch.

17th century French printmaker Jacques Callot artwork featuring little men with swords and musical instruments

I suppose Jacques Callot (1592-1635) may have been a proto-Zoucher 🙂 Or perhaps an ancestor of Mr.Zouch himself?

17th century French printmaker Jacques Callot artwork featuring little men with swords and musical instruments

Examining his eccentric, yet technically solid work may help us tap into the true spirit of the world of Zouch.

17th century French printmaker Jacques Callot artwork featuring little men with swords and musical instruments 17th century French printmaker Jacques Callot artwork featuring little men with swords and musical instruments 17th century French printmaker Jacques Callot artwork featuring little men with swords and musical instruments

Massacre of the Innocents, Jacques callot, showing the use of multiple stoppings-out to create the fainter lines of the distant view.

Massacre of the Innocents

17th century printmaker Jacques Callot's The Large Hunt

The Large Hunt

Fighting the fence , combat a la barrier par Jackques Callot

Fighting At The Fence