Callot

[ ka-loh ]

noun

1. Jacques [zhahk], 1592?–1635, French engraver and etcher.

Example Sentences

In her reimagining of Callot’s scenes, the characters appear as dignified adventurers, traveling on horseback through colorful landscapes of patterned textiles.

From New York Times

In her 2021 series “Out of Egypt,” Mirga-Tas used as source material four prints by Jacques Callot, a 17th-century printmaker, in which Roma people are depicted as bawdy, lazy charlatans.

From New York Times

“It feels like no one is working for the people, that everyone just has their own political game,” said Jocelyn Callot, a nurse on the city’s Eastside, who is undecided.

From New York Times

Meanwhile, Weyman sets chesslike political maneuverings against an ever-shifting backdrop of palaces, rooming houses, dark alleys and riotous taverns, occasionally inserting the kind of grisly tableaux associated with printmaker Jacques Callot: “Here and there . . . a man dangled on a rude gallows; under which sportsmen returning from the chase and ladies who had been for an airing rode laughing on their way.”

From Washington Post

The fourth human member of the group, André Callot, is credited as the editor of “The Puzzlers 2,” in which he also delivers a wonderfully atmospheric voice-over monologue.

From New York Times