Jacques Callot

Beggar with Crutches and Wallet

Maker

Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635)

Title

Beggar with Crutches and Wallet
The Beggars

Year

ca. 1622-1623

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

pen and ink

Dimensions

Image: 13.8 x 8.7 cm (5 7/16 x 3 7/16 inches)

Identification

State

i/ii

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the Fazzano Brothers

Object Number

84.198.1236

Type

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 17: Variance

This issue complements the RISD Museum exhibition Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability, on view through October 9, 2022.

Exhibition History

Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print
Jun 17, 2011 – Nov 06, 2011

Label copy

Throughout his career, Callot revealed an interest in human nature and its various manifestations in particular social classes. Callot’s depiction of this tattered man set against a blank background is stark and unforgiving. Such itinerant beggars were not uncommon in 17th-century Europe, given the constant war and famine of the

time. Artists throughout Europe frequently copied Callot’s images of beggars and used them as inspiration for depictions of so-called “low life” scenes of their own. The works on view to the right are contemporaneous examples from the Netherlands. Callot may have inspired the genre, but Netherlandish examples tended to bring

more individuality (some would say sympathy) to the subject.

Image use

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635)
Beggar with Crutches and Wallet; The Beggars, ca. 1622-1623
Etching
Image: 13.8 x 8.7 cm (5 7/16 x 3 7/16 inches)
Gift of the Fazzano Brothers 84.198.1236

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