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Punishments: the stake
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Punishments: the stake

Jacques Callot · 1633 · etching; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

On a clearing near a church and some houses on fire, many soldiers watch how a man, bound to a stake, dies on a pyre. Below the image a six-line French verse. This print is part of a series of 17 (18 including title print) prints with depictions of various kinds of miseries that warfare brings with it.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineStrafmaatregelen: de brandstapel. 1633. Jacques Callot. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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