1628
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Card Players is a 1628 ink by French 17th Century, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This print shows two men sitting across from each other at a wooden table. One holds playing cards close to his chest. Shadows cover part of his face. The artist used etching and drypoint here. That means he scratched fine lines straight into a metal plate, then inked it. The lines feel loose and personal, not perfect. Look for more like this at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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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