1601
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Sheet of Etchings is a 1601 ink by French 17th Century, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sheet shows four small scenes carved into metal and printed. One man stands by a boat, another holds a stick near a tree, a third chats with a friend in fancy hats, and a fourth swings a bat at something on the ground. The lines are sharp and dark, with some shading to show light and shadow. These images look like everyday moments dressed up for art—maybe work, maybe play. The clothes and tools hint at a time when people did things by hand, not machines. Next, check out etching to see how artists like this carved these pictures.
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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