Nicolas Cochin

This battle scene (made by one of two brothers with nearly indistinguishable styles) demonstrates Callot’s exemplary influence on the entire genre of battle scene prints. The expansive space coupled with artificial framing devices and banderole titling distance us from the action, but we are still privy to the minutia of individual battalions and military exercises. The episode depicted is that of the French army entering Catalonia in 1647 ostensibly to help the rebels, who had revolted against Habsburg Spain. Cochin made the print well after the fact as part of a series depicting the great military victories of Louis XIV.