The 347 Series are among the last hand-signed etchings and engravings Picasso ever created, with each of the original plates etched or engraved by the hand of Picasso alone. The 347 Series or 347 Suite were executed between March 16 and October 8 1968 and the work was Picasso's largest in terms of the number of individual prints in the series; and his penultimate large etching series before the 156 Series of 1969-1972. No name was given by Picasso to the series. The 347 series was first displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago and Paris's Galerie Louise Leiris in 1970. Picasso was assisted by the Parisian printers Aldo and Piero Crommelynck, who had established an etching workshop near Picasso's Mougins residence. The swashbuckling, seventeenth-century musketeer was one of the most prevalent characters in Picasso's art in the last six years of his life. Possibly a tribute to Rembrandt, a master of the etching medium, Picasso often incorporated the musketeer alongside nude women. In this composition the detailed figure of the musketeer to the left is represented as smaller, yet more detailed when compared to the larger, more simplistic nude model.