# Hurdy-Gurdy Player

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BELLANGE, Jacques](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellange-jacques-rf27e8f2151a7f8>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Etching

## Commentary

Bellange&#39;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.

## Related artworks

- [Lamentation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellange-jacques-rf27e8f2151a7f8/lamentation-r16df0629ff5c50>)
- [The Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellange-jacques-rf27e8f2151a7f8/the-annunciation-r13dcc857cd283c>)
- [The Three Marys at the Tomb](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellange-jacques-rf27e8f2151a7f8/the-three-marys-at-the-tomb-r0bd85217da8f08>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)