Untitled
1730
ink
paper
From the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art
About the artist
1730
ink
paper
From the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1730 ink by Nishikawa Sukenobu, a Baroque work, depicting Reading, held at Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This print shows two women in a room with slanted walls and a window. One woman sits on a low cushion, holding a book open in her lap. The other leans against a screen, looking away. Outside the window, trees and a fence are drawn in quick lines. Notice how the artist used lots of thin, crisscrossed lines to show shadows and fabric. It makes the scene feel three-dimensional. Look up cross-hatching next to see how this technique works.
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