Callot figures; a well-dressed dwarf man to left declaring his love to an old dwarf woman to left, a dwarf man playing


Callot figures; a well-dressed dwarf man to left declaring his love to an old dwarf woman to left, a dwarf man playing the guitar and a dwarf woman dancing with a tambourine to right, from 'Six grotesques' (Six pièces de figures grotesques), 1684, Etching, plate: 5 5/16 x 7 9/16 in. ( x cm), Prints, Agostino Mitelli II (Italian, 1671–1696), After François Collignon (French, Nancy ca. 1610–1687 Rome), After Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610–1664 Florence), Agostino Mitelli, the son of the well-known printmaker Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, had a brief career as a printmaker in Bologna. This prints is part of set of six etchings after Stefano della Bella that represent a type of caricature that was very popular in the seventeenth century


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