Le Petit Enfant Jésus (The Christ Child)

ca. 1620

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 10 5/16 in. (18.5 x 26.2 cm) Plate: 3 x 2 5/16 in. (7.6 x 5.8 cm)
Collection no.: 57.650.390(1)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jacques Callot. Le Petit Enfant Jésus (The Christ Child). Jacques Callot; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957. 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 Petit Enfant Jésus (The Christ Child) — Jacques Callot. ca. 1620.

Medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure). Dimensions: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 10 5/16 in. (18.5 x 26.2 cm) Plate: 3 x 2 5/16 in. (7.6 x 5.8 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957.

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.

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