La Vieux Mendiant a une Seule Béquille (The Old Beggar with Only One Crutch), from Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons (The Beggars, also called the Barons)

La Vieux Mendiant a une Seule Béquille (The Old Beggar with Only One Crutch), from Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons (The Beggars, also called the Barons) by Jacques Callot

Medium

Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

Dimensions

Sheet: 5 9/16 x 3 5/8 in. (14.2 x 9.2 cm) Plate: 5 7/16 x 3 7/16 in. (13.8 x 8.7 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Henry Walters, 1917

Accession Number

17.37.141

Tags

Men

About the Artist

Jacques Callot · 15921635

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...

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