9. Homme au ventre tombant et au chapeau très élevé. Homme bancal jouant de la guitare.

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Two grotesque figures share a single plate in this engraving by Jacques Callot, the French master printmaker of the early seventeenth century. On the left, a squat man with a protruding belly and feathered cap lurches forward strumming a lute, while on the right, a hunched figure in an absurdly tall conical hat crouches over a guitar, a sword at its side. Callot's razor-precise burin work captures both comedy and menace in just a few wiry lines, making his caricature series enormously influential on later European satirical printmaking.

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