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Jacques Callot

L'Estropié a la Béquille et a La Jambe de Bois (The Cripple with a Crutch and a Wooden Leg), 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
Etching and engraving; first state of two (Lieure)
18.5 × 26.2 cm (7.3 × 10.3 in)

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