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Le mari confesseur, by Antoine-Jean Duclos, ink, 1776

Le mari confesseur

Antoine-Jean Duclos

1776

ink

From the collection of National Gallery of Art

Dominant colour

Overview

Le mari confesseur is a 1776 ink by Antoine-Jean Duclos, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.

Who painted this?
Antoine-Jean Duclos
When & what style?
1776 · Baroque
Where can I see it?
National Gallery of Art

About this work

This painting shows a group of people in a room. There are five people sitting and one standing. They are all dressed in old-fashioned clothes. The room has a fancy ceiling and some big curtains. One interesting thing about this painting is that it's made using etching and engraving. This means the artist used special tools to carve the design into a metal plate, which was then used to print the image. If you want to learn more about this style of art, you could look into the Baroque movement.

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