1650
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Large Rock is a 1650 ink by Allart van Everdingen, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This image shows a dark, textured landscape filled with gnarled trees and rocky hills. The lines are scratchy and layered, giving everything a rough, almost tangled look. In the distance, a small building sits near a body of water, barely visible through the dense forest. The artist used a technique called *etching*, where ink is scraped into a metal plate to create the lines. This method lets for lots of detail and shading, which you can see in the way the trees and rocks look almost three-dimensional. Check out etching to see how artists like this one made their marks.
Allaert van Everdingen (Dutch pronunciation: ; bapt. 18 June 1621 – 8 November 1675 (buried)), was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker in etching and mezzotint.
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