Saint Mansuy, pièce appelée aussi Saint Mansuet ou La Raquette (Saint Mansuy, piece also called Saint Mansuet or The Racket)
Jacques Callot
ca. 1616
Medium
Etching; seventh state of nine (Lieure)
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/8 x 10 13/16 in. (20.7 x 27.5 cm) trimmed
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1940
Accession Number
40.52.73
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...