Jacques Callot ( 1592-1632 ) - Man with tall Italian hat wrapped in cape - Original

\Artist: Jacques Callot ( 1592-1632)
Technique: Etching\Signature: Not signed
Les Gueux / Les Mendiants One of his most known series. A masterwork etched by Callot in Nancy. He expressed beautifully the physiognomy of these unfortunate people whose misery does not stop instincts, and whose faces reflect both fatigue and sufrance, envy and anger. Excellent impression of the second state with the number. On laid paper, trimmed on plate border. With two corners tipped on a support sheet. Man with tall Italian hat and wrapped in cape, with tin can in hand; a dog sits on the right; on white ground Original Callot etching, no copy. Reference: Lieure 1927 500. II Meaume 1860 706 Guaranteed original. Jacques Callot ( 1592 - 1635) Etcher and draughtsman, born Nancy. 1608-1611 in Rome; 1612-1621 in Florence, working for the Medici; in 1621 returned to Nancy, where he settled and married. Died suddenly in 1635. Enormously popular and much copied. From c. 1620 most of his plates were published by his friend Israel Henriet. Bibliography: Jules Lieure, 'Jacques Callot, catalogue de son oeuvre gravé', 3 vols, Paris 1924-7