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The image shows a sketch of a human figure in a side-profile view from the upper thigh down, including one leg. The figure appears to be standing. Facial features, hair, clothing, or specific objects are not detailed. Surrounding the figure are additional light sketches of an animal head and abstract shapes. The background has a lightly speckled paper texture, indicating this may be from a sketchbook or similar document.
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The image shows a sketch of a human figure in a side-profile view from the upper thigh down, including one leg. The figure appears to be standing. Facial features, hair, clothing, or specific objects are not detailed. Surrounding the figure are additional light sketches of an animal head and abstract shapes. The background has a lightly speckled paper texture, indicating this may be from a sketchbook or similar document.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Leg and a Pig's Head

Jacques Callot

Date
1616/1617
Medium
pen and brown ink with red chalk and graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 10.3 x 14.1 cm (4 1/16 x 5 9/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2003.6.1.b
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1601 to 1650
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Baroque
  • French
  • animal
  • Anatomy
Provenance

Gosselin collection, Paris; purchased by Winslow Ames, Springfield, MO, 1946; sold by him to Schaeffer Gallery, New York, 1954; at another American gallery by 1962 (according to Ternois 1962); private collection (sale, Christie's, Paris, 21 March 2002; bought in); sale, Christie's, Paris, 27 November 2002, no. 134; (via Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Inscription

inscribedi in graphite at lower left: 27.2750/bttt

NGA object ID 126911. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.