Art, literature & history
La Paresse (Sloth), From Les Péchées Capitaux (The Deadly Sins)
ca. 1620
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Etching and engraving; first state of two (Lieure)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 7 5/16 x 10 1/4 in. (18.5 x 26 cm) Plate: 2 15/16 x 2 5/16 in. (7.5 x 5.8 cm)
- Collection no.
- 57.650.390(3)
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jacques Callot. La Paresse (Sloth), From Les Péchées Capitaux (The Deadly Sins). 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
La Paresse (Sloth), From Les Péchées Capitaux (The Deadly Sins) — Jacques Callot. ca. 1620.
Medium: Etching and engraving; first state of two (Lieure). Dimensions: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 10 1/4 in. (18.5 x 26 cm) Plate: 2 15/16 x 2 5/16 in. (7.5 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.