La Confidence
1774
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
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Artist
Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet
Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet (1760–1760) was an artist.
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ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
La Confidence is a 1774 ink by Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This engraving shows two women in a richly decorated room. One sits on a cushioned chair, holding a small child who leans over a low table. The other woman kneels beside the table, looking up at the seated woman. Both wear fancy, flowing clothes, and the room has heavy curtains, patterned walls, and a window with a distant landscape. The artist used fine lines and shading to create depth, especially in the fabrics and faces. This kind of careful linework is called cross-hatching. Look up cross-hatching to see how artists build shadows with lines.
Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet (1760–1760) was an artist.
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