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Le Mendiant a la Tête Découverte et aux Pieds Nuds (The Beggar with the Uncovered Head and Bare Feet), from Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons (The Beggars, also called the Barons)
ca. 1623
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Etching; first state of two (Lieure)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 5 9/16 x 3 9/16 in. (14.2 x 9 cm) Plate: 5 7/16 x 3 7/16 in. (13.8 x 8.8 cm)
- Collection no.
- 17.37.139
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jacques Callot. Le Mendiant a la Tête Découverte et aux Pieds Nuds (The Beggar with the Uncovered Head and Bare Feet), from Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons (The Beggars, also called the Barons). Jacques Callot; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Henry Walters, 1917. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Le Mendiant a la Tête Découverte et aux Pieds Nuds (The Beggar with the Uncovered Head and Bare Feet), from Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons (The Beggars, also called the Barons) — Jacques Callot. ca. 1623.
Medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure). Dimensions: Sheet: 5 9/16 x 3 9/16 in. (14.2 x 9 cm) Plate: 5 7/16 x 3 7/16 in. (13.8 x 8.8 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.