Beggar Eating
1622
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
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Jacques Callot
Jacques Callot was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine.
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ink
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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Beggar Eating is a 1622 ink by Jacques Callot, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows a ragged man hunched over a crust of bread, his hands shaking. Lines twist around his hollow face and tattered coat, making him look real, not idealized. Callot made many prints like this, showing poor people’s hard lives. The artist used fine, sharp lines to carve details into metal. He pressed ink into those grooves to print the image. Callot often worked this way—etching was his tool. Look at this print next to Callot’s own work at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Jacques Callot was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine.
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