Artwork
Two Beggar Women
Two Beggar Women is an ink print by the Baroque artist French 17th Century. It dates from 1622 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
About this work
Overview
Two Beggar Women is an etching on laid paper depicting two women in worn clothing.
Subject & Meaning
The print shows two women standing together, one leaning on a cane and the other holding a small bowl, conveying a sense of hardship and poverty through their tired postures and rough features.
Technique & Style
The artist employed sharp lines to capture the worn textures of the women's clothing and the roughness of their faces and hands, utilizing a style characteristic of etchings from the period.
Artist & collection
Artist
Seventeenth-century French printmakers turned ink into story. Their tools were burin and acid, paper their stage. Look at the Beggar Woman with Rosary (1622), etched on laid paper, her hands folded around faith, or The…
