Le Brelan, pièce appelée aussi Les Joueurs de Cartes et L'Enfant Produgue Trompé par une Troupe de Filous (Three of a Kind, also called The Card Players and The Prodigal Son Tricked by a Group of Thieves)
Jacques Callot
1628–29
Medium
Etching and engraving; second state of two (Lieure)
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 5/16 x 10 3/4 in. (21.1 x 27.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.1925
Tags
GamesHarpsMenPlaying CardsWomen
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...