August
1617
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
1617
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
August is a 1617 ink by Jan van de Velde, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This black-and-white print shows a quiet countryside scene. A small church with a tall steeple sits near a riverbank, surrounded by trees and fields. In the foreground, three people tend to animals and crops, while others work near the water. The artist used fine lines to capture details like the folds in the workers’ clothes and the texture of the grass. This kind of printmaking is called *etching*—where acid bites into metal plates to create the image. Look up etching to see how it works.
Jan van de Velde the younger (1593 – c. 1 November 1641) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker, mostly of animal, landscape and still-life subjects. He was the son of Jan van de Velde the Elder and the father of…
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