Tag: etching

Il Poeta (c.1620-1621)

Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Il Poeta (The Poet) c.1620–1621 Etching, 15.8 x 12.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Ribera produced a small but distinctive group of sixteen etchings, most during a short span in the 1620s. Etching was then undergoing…

Self portrait with Saskia (1636)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self portrait with Saskia 1636 Etching, 10.4 x 9.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Rembrandt painted, etched, and drew more than seventy-five self-portraits. A few of these include his first wife, Saskia van Uylenburgh, whom he married in…

Mouettes (s.d.)

Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) Mouettes (Seagulls) s.d. Etching, 29.8 x 16.8 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton

Bridge of Sighs (1858)

Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Bridge of Sighs 1858 Etching on ivory chine, laid down on ivory wove paper, 17.6 × 12.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The etching was made as an illustration to Thomas Hood’s poem ‘The Bridge of Sighs’,…

Vincent van Gogh sur son lit de mort (1890)

Gachet, Paul (1828-1909) Vincent van Gogh sur son lit de mort (Vincent van Gogh on His Deathbed) 1890 Etching in black on tan laid paper, 12.1 × 16.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Compare: Gachet, Paul (1828-1909) Vincent Van Gogh à son…

The Hare Hunters (1566)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Hare Hunters 1566 Etching in black on ivory laid paper, 21.5 × 29.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This etching might represent two related proverbs popularized by the philosopher/writer Erasmus in the mid-1500s: “He who…

Portrait du critique Gustave Geffroy (c.1890)

Bracquemond, Marie (1840-1916) Portrait du critique Gustave Geffroy (Portrait of the Critic Gustave Geffroy) c.1890 Etching in black on cream wove paper, tipped onto ivory wove paper, 21.7 × 17 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Geffroy, Gustave (1855-1926)