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Female beggar with three children
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Female beggar with three children

Jacques Callot · 1622 - 1623 · etching; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Woman, dressed in rags, seen from the front, a small boy at her right side, a toddler on her back and a baby in her arms, which she is breastfeeding. This print is part of a series of 25 prints of beggars and vagrants, such as Callot who probably saw them in Italy.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
printnursing, sucklingfeeding a babybeggar
Credit lineBedelares met drie kinderen. 1622 - 1623. Jacques Callot. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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