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Lady with Her Hands in Her Sleeves (from La Noblesse de Lorraine)

Jacques Callot1620/1623

Reading Public Museum

Reading Public Museum
Reading, United States

The grand figures, who dwarf the Tuscan-style landscapes behind them, represent the recently ennobled bourgeois class that formed the elite citizenry of the Duchy of Lorraine. Callot’s larger-than-life portrayals make commentary on particular social types as opposed to specific individuals. It has been suggested that Callot used members of his own family as models: the woman pictured in the etchings in this exhibition—and others in the series—is Callot’s wife, Catherine Kuttinger, whom he wed in 1623.

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