La Paysanne Vue de Face, Tenant un Panier sur sa Tête (The Peasant Woman Viewed from the Front with a Basket on her Head), from Varie Figure (Various Figures)
Jacques Callot
ca. 1620
Medium
Etching; first state of four (Lieure)
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 3/8 x 3 11/16 in. (8.5 x 9.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957
Accession Number
57.650.373(4)
Tags
WomenBaskets
About the Artist
Jacques Callot · 1592–1635
Jacques Callot (1592–1635) was a French printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine, widely regarded as one of the first great artists to practice the graphic arts exclusively. His more than 1,400 etchings chronicled the breadth of 17th-century life, from Medici court festivities to the brutal realities of warfare. Callot revolutionized etching through technical innovations including the é...