Christ Rebukes the Scribes and Pharisees
1578
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
1578
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Christ Rebukes the Scribes and Pharisees is a 1578 ink by Léonard Gaultier, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This black-and-white scene shows a crowd of people gathered around a man in the center. The man holds a small box and points upward, while others around him look up too, some with hands raised. In the background, a town sits on a hill, with a bird soaring above it. Notice how the artist uses tiny lines to build up shadows and texture—this is called cross-hatching. The people’s clothes and gestures feel stiff, almost like a storybook illustration. Try looking up cross-hatching to see how artists create depth with just lines.
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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