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A Man Playing the Hurdy-Gurdy


Le Joueur de vielle
Unidentified artist, 17th century
Copied after: Jacques Callot (French, 1592–1635)
early 17th–mid 17th century

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 6.6 x 8.3 cm (2 5/8 x 3 1/4 in.)(trimmed on the platemark)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP19504.15
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Meaume 762 (copy); Lieure 0421 (copy)
Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in gray ink, the mark of The Rev. J. Burleigh James, Knowbury Park, Shropshire (mid-19th cent.)(Lugt 1425); verso, bottom left, stamped in red ink, the mark of Henry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); verso, center, stamped in violet ink (almost completely faded), the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870); verso, lower left, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 1868)
ProvenanceThe Rev. J. Burleigh James, Knowbury Park, Shropshire (mid-19th cent.)(Lugt 1425); Henry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); purchased by MFA November 1897