Hurdy-Gurdy Player
by BELLANGE, Jacques, Etching
Bellange’s most important works all deal with religious themes; but he also designed a few genre compositions of which the most remarkable is the Hurdy-Gurdy Player. Here Bellange shows an interest, exceptional for him, in the ugliness and deformity of the blind beggar; but there is nothing unusual in this simultaneous inclination towards the opposite extremes of elegance and repulsiveness.