Artwork
Beggar Couple, with Landscape in Background
Beggar Couple, with Landscape in Background is an ink print by the Baroque artist French 17th Century. It dates from 1601 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
About this work
Overview
The Beggar Couple, with Landscape in Background is an etching on laid paper depicting an elderly couple outdoors.
Subject & Meaning
The scene shows an older man, leaning on a stick and wearing a wide-brimmed hat, and a woman, dressed in a long coat and carrying a bundle, set against a simple landscape of trees and bushes.
Technique & Style
The artist employed lines to convey texture, creating a woven effect in the couple's clothing, a characteristic technique in etching where the plate retains ink for shading.
Artist & collection
Artist
Seventeenth-century French printmakers worked in burin and acid. See the Beggar Woman with Rosary (1622), etched on laid paper with her hands folded in prayer, or The Siege of La Rochelle (1628/1631), one sheet from a…
