1586
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Henry III of France is a 1586 ink by Hieronymus Wierix, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This is a black-and-white portrait of a man with a serious expression. His dark hair is styled high with a feather sticking up. He wears a high-collared black coat with big buttons and a ruff around his neck. The background is plain, keeping all focus on his face. The artist used fine lines to show texture, like the folds in his clothes. This style is called cross-hatching, where layers of lines create shadows. Try looking up how engraving works next.
Hieronymus Wierix (1553–1619) was a Flemish engraver, draughtsman and publisher. He is known for his reproductive engravings after the work of well-known local and foreign artists including Albrecht Dürer. Together with…
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