Artwork
Village Church
Village Church is an ink print by the Baroque artist French 17th Century. It dates from 1635 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
About this work
Overview
Village Church is an etching on laid paper, depicting a serene village scene.
Subject & Meaning
The print features a small village centered around a church with a tall steeple, surrounded by trees and a nearby house, with a river or stream and fence in the foreground.
Technique & Style
The artist employed fine lines to convey texture, such as tree bark and water ripples, characteristic of the etching process, where ink is pressed into a metal plate and then transferred to paper.
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…
