Tag: etching

Le débuché (1863)

Balleroy, Albert de (1828-1872) Le débuché (The Debut / Wild boar hunting) 1863 Etching on paper, 24 x 32 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Portrait de Stéphane Mallarmé (1891)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Portrait de Stéphane Mallarmé (Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé) 1891 and/or 1913–1919 Etching on paper, 18.3 x 14.3 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Portrait of the symbolist writer Stéphane Mallarmé. Behind the portrait, the head of a raven, taken from Manet‘s…

Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco (1778)

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco (Drunks, or The Triumph of Bacchus) 1778 Etching, drypoint, 39.5 x 46.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Inscription: “Pintura de Don Diego Velázquez con figuras del tamaño natural en el…

La sepoltura (1529-1530)

Parmigianino (1503-1540) La sepoltura (The Entombment) 1529–1530 Etching, 27.1 x 20.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland One of the most important Mannerist painters, Parmigianino was the first artist to exploit the fluid, expressive potential of etching. The graphic vocabulary of…

Olympia (1867)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Olympia 1867 Etching Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Manet‘s model, Victorine Meurent, was herself a successful painter who showed her work at Paris‘s salon. When Edouard Manet’s painting Olympia was exhibited in Paris in 1865, it was met by…

La terrasse de la Villa Brancas (1876)

Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) La terrasse de la Villa Brancas (The Terrace of the Villa Brancas) 1876 Etching on laid paper, 25.4 x 35.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Here, two women are seated on a sunny terrace in the lush landscape…

Jupiter and Antiope (1659)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Jupiter and Antiope 1659 Etching, 13.9 x 20.1 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt depicts the slumbering Antiope so convincingly that it seems he is drawing a model actually sleeping soundly. She lies in a totally relaxed pose, her lips parted and her…

Faune dévoilant une dormeuse (1936)

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Faune dévoilant une dormeuse / Jupiter et Antiope, d’après Rembrandt (Faun Revealing a Sleeping Woman/Jupiter and Antiope, after Rembrandt) 1936 Etching and aquatint on paper, 31.6 x 41.7 cm Tate Britain, London Pablo Picasso’s Faun Revealing a Sleeping…