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The article profiles Jacques Callot, the proponent of unrelenting realism recognized as the "Father of French Etching." It outlines that Callot was born to a noble family in Nancy in 1592 who run away from home at the age of 12 to join gypsies. It points out that he returned to Nancy and became a celebrated artist in 1621. His etchings depict the brutality in Lorraine in 1633.