1634
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
St. Mederic, Abbot; Beheading of John the Baptist; St. Fiacre; Festival of the Belt of the Virgin is a 1634 ink by Jacques Callot, a Baroque work, depicting Engraving Proces, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see four small scenes in one frame. On the left, an old man in robes kneels. On the right, a crowd watches a man lose his head. In the middle, two saints stand side by side. The smallest scene shows a festival with a belt and a crowd. This style is called an *etching*. The artist scratches lines into metal, then covers it with ink. When pressed onto paper, the ink stays in the scratches. That’s how you get these sharp, dark lines. Look up the artist, Callot, Jacques.
Jacques Callot was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine.
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