Christ Journeying to the House of a Pharisee
1578
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
1578
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Christ Journeying to the House of a Pharisee is a 1578 ink by Léonard Gaultier, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This engraving shows two groups of people inside and outside a building with arches. On the left, a group of men in robes walks toward a seated figure. Outside, soldiers on horseback ride past a small village with ships in the distance. Inside, another group gathers around a table, with one person handing something to another. Notice the tiny details: the soldiers’ spears, the ships in the harbor, and the way the people’s faces are drawn with careful lines. The artist used shading to make the figures pop off the page. If you like this style, check out engraving to see how artists use lines to create depth.
Léonard Gaultier, or, as he sometimes signed himself, Galter, a French engraver, was born at Mainz about 1561, and died in Paris in 1641.
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