1601
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Beggar Woman and Child is a 1601 ink by French 17th Century, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows an older woman and a child walking together. The woman leans on a staff, wears a hooded cloak, and carries a bag slung over one shoulder. The child, smaller and simpler in clothes, walks beside her. The background is a rough, textured landscape with a few bushes and a faint sky. The lines are scratchy and uneven, typical of an etching. This style was used to create quick, expressive images back then. Look up etching to see how artists like this made their marks.
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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