1919
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Das Gastmahl des Trimalchio: pl. XI (The Banquet of Trimalchio: pl. XI) is a 1919 ink by Lovis Corinth, depicting Dancing, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows a rowdy party scene with men in suits and hats. Plates pile up. A dog sniffs a table leg. A man in the corner drinks from a big jug. The artist, Lovis Corinth, made this from a real Roman story. Trimalchio was a freed slave who threw huge, silly feasts. Corinth used a drypoint needle to scratch lines into metal, then inked it. This kind of sharp, lively line reminds me of Rembrandt’s etchings. Go see his work at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Lovis Corinth was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.
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