1635
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Landscape is a 1635 ink by French 17th Century, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a simple landscape with trees and hills. It's an etching, which is a way of creating images by scratching a design into a metal plate. The artist used this technique to create a lot of detail in the scene, like the texture of the trees. You can learn more about this technique by looking up 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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