The Two Pantaloons
Jacques Callot · 1616 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Jacques Callot peopled his lively etchings with clowns, beggars, and stock figures from the Italian Commedia dell’arte (the improvisational street theater of the day). Spectacles, theatrical attire, and awkward posture mark both of the foreground men as the Commedia’s elderly, miserly, and lecherous character type, called Pantalone. They appear in stark contrast to the elegant nobles dallying in the background.
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- Maker
- Jacques Callot, French, 1592-1635
- Date
- 1616
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 9.5 × 14 cm (3 3/4 × 5 9/16 in.); Sheet: 10 × 14.7 cm (3 15/16 × 5 13/16 in.)
- Place of origin
- France
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
- Credit line
- Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
Image: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0
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