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Commedia dell'arte figure with guitar, sword and mask
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Commedia dell'arte figure, seen from the front, playing a guitar, a cap with two feathers on his head, a mask before his face, a sword at his right side. This print is part of a series of 21 prints with grotesque figures; almost all those figures are caricatures of little people, many are hunched.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineCommedia dell'arte-figuur met gitaar, zwaard en masker. 1621 - 1625. Jacques Callot. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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