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Jacques Callot
Man Playing a Grill in the Manner of a Violin1616

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Ink drawing on pale paper of a grotesquely caricatured hunched figure in profile, playing a multi-pronged instrument with dangling bells

Jacques Callot, Man Playing a Grill in the Manner of a Violin, 1616, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Anonymous gift, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Jacques Callot
Title
Man Playing a Grill in the Manner of a Violin
Place Made
France
Date Made
1616
Medium
Etching with engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 × 4 1/2 in. (7.62 × 11.43 cm) Image: 2 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (6.35 × 8.89 cm)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Accession Number
M.65.26.34
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Lieure, Jules. Jacques Callot : catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé. San Francisco : Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989.
  • 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.