Frontispiece, from Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pygmées, Les Nains Grotesques (Various Hunchbacked Figures, The Hunchbacks, The Pygmes, The Grotesque Dwarfs)

1616–22

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching and engraving; first state of two (Lieure)
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 10 5/16 in. (18.5 x 26.2 cm) Plate: 2 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. (6 x 8.5 cm)
Collection no.: 57.650.302(1)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jacques Callot. Frontispiece, from Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pygmées, Les Nains Grotesques (Various Hunchbacked Figures, The Hunchbacks, The Pygmes, The Grotesque Dwarfs). 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

Frontispiece, from Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pygmées, Les Nains Grotesques (Various Hunchbacked Figures, The Hunchbacks, The Pygmes, The Grotesque Dwarfs) — Jacques Callot. 1616–22.

Medium: Etching and engraving; first state of two (Lieure). Dimensions: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 10 5/16 in. (18.5 x 26.2 cm) Plate: 2 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. (6 x 8.5 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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