1752
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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
L'Espagne Cintre du Salon de la Guerre en face de la Galerie (Spain, Center of the Salon of War Opposite the Gallery) [pl. 38] is a 1752 ink by Jean-Baptiste Massé, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This print shows a chaotic battle scene with lots of people fighting. Some are holding swords, others wave flags or lean on cannons. One woman stands tall in the middle, while others crouch or fall. The sky is dark, and the ground looks messy with debris. The artist used fine lines to build up shapes and shadows—this is called cross-hatching. It’s all drawn on paper, not painted. Next, check out how cross-hatching works in other prints.
Jean-Baptiste Massé (29 December 1687, in Paris – 26 September 1767, in Paris) was a French miniature painter, engraver, and draftsman, best remembered as the court painter of Louis XV, for training Jean-Étienne Liotard…
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