Frontispiece: Dictionnaire de musique
Jean-Michel the Younger Moreau
1779
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Jean-Michel the Younger Moreau
1779
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Frontispiece: Dictionnaire de musique is a 1779 ink by Jean-Michel the Younger Moreau, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This print shows a woman sitting on a stone pedestal in a garden. She’s playing a lyre while holding a book open in her lap. Around her, sheep graze and a small temple sits in the background. Trees frame the scene, and a few people are working in the distance. The artist used fine lines to create different textures—like the folds in her dress or the leaves on the trees. This is a print, not a painting, so the shading is made by etching, not brushstrokes. Check out the technique: etching to see how artists like this made detailed prints.
Jean-Michel the Younger Moreau (1766–1766) was an artist.
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