Art, literature & history
The Masked Comedian Playing a Guitar
c. 1622
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 6.3 × 7.5 cm (2 1/2 × 2 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1949.5.255
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jacques Callot. The Masked Comedian Playing a Guitar. 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,_The_Masked_Comedian_Playing_a_Guitar,_c._1622,_NGA_36701.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Masked Comedian Playing a Guitar — Jacques Callot. c. 1622.
Medium: etching and engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 6.3 × 7.5 cm (2 1/2 × 2 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1949.5.255. Rosenwald 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.