1874
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Mill at Saint Jacut (Le moulin de Saint Jacut) is a 1874 ink by Norbert Goeneutte, a Impressionism work, depicting Windmill, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows a windmill by the coast at low tide. The sails are still, the water’s glassy. Dark lines carve shadows into the sand. Goeneutte cut the image with two tools: an etching needle and a drypoint needle that leaves fuzzy burrs. You can feel the pressure in the marks. See this side-by-side with one of Pissarro’s etchings to spot how different artists use the same tools.
Norbert Goeneutte (23 July 1854 – 9 October 1894) was a French painter, etcher and illustrator; notably for the novel La Terre by Émile Zola.
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