1663
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Jean Fronteau is a 1663 ink by Robert Nanteuil, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This is a black-and-white portrait of a serious-looking man with a short beard and curly hair. He’s wearing a high-collared shirt and a dark robe over his shoulder. The background is just a plain oval frame with some faint lines around it. The artist used tiny crisscrossed lines to build up the shading on his face and clothes—this is called cross-hatching. It makes the portrait look detailed even though it’s just ink on paper. Try looking up cross-hatching to see how artists create depth with lines.
Robert Nanteuil (French pronunciation: ; 1623 – 9 December 1678) was a French portrait artist: engraver, draughtsman and pastellist to the court of Louis XIV.
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