1622
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Beggar with Rosary is a 1622 ink by French 17th Century, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This drawing shows an older man in worn clothes, holding a rosary with one hand and a hat in the other. His long beard and loose robes make him look tired, and his shoes are scuffed. The lines are rough and dark, giving the whole image a scratchy, uneven feel. The artist used a technique that lets ink sink into the metal plate, creating sharp but uneven marks. This style was common in the 1600s. Check out technique: etching to see how this method works.
Seventeenth-century French printmakers turned ink into story. Their tools were burin and acid, paper their stage. Look at the Beggar Woman with Rosary (1622), etched on laid paper, her hands folded around faith, or The…
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