Art, literature & history
Man Preparing to Draw his Sword
c. 1622
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 6.2 × 8.8 cm (2 7/16 × 3 7/16 in.) sheet: 9 × 10.4 cm (3 9/16 × 4 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1969.15.427
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jacques Callot. Man Preparing to Draw his Sword. Jacques Callot; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques_Callot,_Man_Preparing_to_Draw_his_Sword,_c._1622,_NGA_51582.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Man Preparing to Draw his Sword — Jacques Callot. c. 1622.
Medium: etching and engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 6.2 × 8.8 cm (2 7/16 × 3 7/16 in.) sheet: 9 × 10.4 cm (3 9/16 × 4 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1969.15.427. R.L. Baumfeld Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.