Varie figure gobbi di Iacopo Callot (Cripple with a hood) (c. 1621–25): Art, History and Details

Varie figure gobbi di Iacopo Callot (Cripple with a hood) (c. 1621–25) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jacques Callot (French, 1592–1635).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This image was published by Callot in 1621 as part of a series of 21 prints depicting gobbi (people with curved backs). The series was titled Varie figure gobbi di Jacopo Callot fatto in Firenza l'anno 1616 (Various hunchbacks by Jacopo Callot, made in Florence in 1616). The figures in the series are reminiscent of character tropes that were popular in the theatrical genre known as the commedia dell’arte (comedy of the profession). As the name suggests, the comedy of this genre was predicated on the assumption that the viewer occupied a different social class than the characters depicted.

Object facts

• Title: Varie figure gobbi di Iacopo Callot (Cripple with a hood)
• Date: c. 1621–25
• Creator attribution: Jacques Callot (French, 1592–1635)
• Culture: France
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1970.23

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. S. Fred Rosenthal for the fiftieth anniversary of The Print Club of Cleveland

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