L'Homme Raclant un Gril en Guise de Violon (Man Scraping a Grill in the Guise of a Violin), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pygmées, Les Nains Grotesques" (Various Hunchbacked Figures, The Hunchbacks, The Pygmes, The Grotesque Dwarfs)
Jacques Callot · French
Date: 1616–22
Medium: Etching and engraving; first state of two (Lieure)
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 10 5/16 in. (18.5 x 26.2 cm) Plate: 2 1/2 x 3 9/16 in. (6.4 x 9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Themes: Violins
Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957
Date range
1616 – 1622
Largest dimension
26.2 cm
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