René de Longueil

About this work

This is a black-and-white portrait of a man with curly hair and a mustache. His face is framed inside a rounded oval, and he wears a high-collared shirt with horizontal lines. Below, there’s a small shield with a coat of arms and some leaves. The lines in the shirt are made by tiny parallel marks called cross-hatching. This technique creates shadows and texture just with ink lines. Next, look up technique: engraving, cross-hatching to see how artists made detailed images before color.