Fat Beggar with Eyes Cast Down
after Jacques Callot
1622 or later
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 13.6 × 8.2 cm (5 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.) sheet: 14.3 × 9.5 cm (5 5/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1949.5.326
About the Artist
after Jacques Callot
**Jacques Callot (c. 1592–1635)**, the master whose designs inspired the works attributed "after Jacques Callot," was a pioneering French Baroque printmaker and draftsman born in Nancy, capital of the independent Duchy of Lorraine (now northeastern France). From a noble family—his father served as master of ceremonies and herald-at-arms to the Duke of Lorraine—young Callot was apprenticed to a gol...