1635
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Village Church is a 1635 ink by French 17th Century, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a quiet village with a small church at its center. The church has a tall steeple and a simple, rustic look, surrounded by a few trees and a modest house nearby. In the foreground, a river or stream runs across the bottom, with a fence running alongside it. The artist used fine lines to create texture, like the rough bark on trees or the ripples in the water. This kind of drawing was made by pressing ink into a metal plate, then pressing paper onto it. Check out the technique: etching to see how this image was made.
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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