Le Mendiant a la Jambe de Bois (The Beggar with the Wooden Leg), 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
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 11/16 x 5 11/16 in. (19.5 x 14.5 cm) Plate: 5 3/8 x 3 7/16 in. (13.6 x 8.7 cm)
Collection no.: 1986.1180.330
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jacques Callot. Le Mendiant a la Jambe de Bois (The Beggar with the Wooden Leg), 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; Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Le Mendiant a la Jambe de Bois (The Beggar with the Wooden Leg), 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: 7 11/16 x 5 11/16 in. (19.5 x 14.5 cm) Plate: 5 3/8 x 3 7/16 in. (13.6 x 8.7 cm).

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

Credit line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985.

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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