Three Plates Printed on One Sheet of Descriptive Text for "Siège de la Citadelle de St-Martin dans l'Île de Ré" (Siege of the Citadel of St. Martin on the Île de Ré)
Sheet of descriptive text accompanying a series by Jacques Callot French
Publisher Chalcographie du Louvre French
Not on view
The depiction of the Siege of the Citadel of St. Martin on the Île de Ré was commissioned by Louis XIII in 1628. The plates illustrate French victory at the command of Cardinal Richelieu.