The Card Player is a 1641 ink by Rembrandt, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a person’s face and hands, drawn in quick, scratchy lines. Their hair is a wild tangle of strokes, and their collar looks slightly rumpled. The paper has a grainy, textured look, like the artist worked fast. The artist used a technique where ink is scratched into a metal plate, then pressed onto paper—this is called etching. The lines are loose and expressive, not perfectly smooth. Next, check out etching to see how artists use ink and metal plates to make prints.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
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