1910
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Pietà (1ère planche) (Pietà) (first plate) is a 1910 ink by Jean-Louis Forain, held at National Gallery of Art.
Jean-Louis Forain’s 1910 drypoint shows the Virgin Mary cradling Christ after the Crucifixion. Her face is calm but lined with quiet grief. The background is almost blank, so the light and dark lines do the talking. Forain loved printmaking for its sharp contrasts. He used drypoint to scratch lines into metal, then inked the plate to make prints. The scratches catch light differently than a brush would. Try looking up Forain, Jean-Louis next.
Jean-Louis Forain (French pronunciation: ; 23 October 1852 – 11 July 1931) was a French Impressionist painter and printmaker, working in media including oils, watercolour, pastel, etching and lithograph.
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