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Jacques Callot
Two Mimes Turning their Backs on One Another1617

Not on view
Etching or engraving of two grotesque, jester-costumed figures balancing on one leg and facing each other, rendered with dense hatching on cream paper

Jacques Callot, Two Mimes Turning their Backs on One Another, 1617, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Warren C. Shearman, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Jacques Callot
Title
Two Mimes Turning their Backs on One Another
Place Made
France
Date Made
1617
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 1/4 × 3 1/4 in. (5.72 × 8.26 cm) Image: 2 1/8 × 3 1/8 in. (5.4 × 7.94 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Warren C. Shearman
Accession Number
M.61.2.11
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.

  • Blondet, José Luis. Six Scripts for Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE-2020 CE). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2020.