1627
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Entry of M. de Macey is a 1627 ink by French 17th Century, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows five people in fancy clothes, dancing in a line. They all wear tall hats with feathers and carry big drums or play flutes. Their outfits look old-fashioned, with lots of ruffles and stripes. The ground beneath them looks rough, like dirt or sand. The artist used a sharp tool to scratch lines into the metal plate. This made the ink stick to the paper in those lines. The result looks like a sketch but with a smooth, clean finish. Next, check out how artists made etchings in the technique: etching.
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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