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Jacques Callot
Man with a Large Sword Seen from Behind1617

Not on view
Pen and ink drawing on blue-gray paper of two grotesque masked figures in commedia dell'arte costumes, each shown in profile with plumed hats and hooked-nose masks

Jacques Callot, Man with a Large Sword Seen from Behind, 1617, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Warren C. Shearman, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Jacques Callot
Title
Man with a Large Sword Seen from Behind
Place Made
France
Date Made
1617
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 1/2 × 3 3/8 in. (6.35 × 8.57 cm) Image: 2 3/8 × 3 1/4 in. (6.03 × 8.26 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Warren C. Shearman
Accession Number
M.61.2.2
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Meaume, Édouard . Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jacques Callot, suite au peintre-graveur français de M. Robert-Dumesnil. Paris, V. J. Renouard, 1860.
  • Lieure, Jules. Jacques Callot : catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé. San Francisco : Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989.