The Artist's Wife and Children

Prints and Drawings

1665/77

Wallerant Vaillant
Dutch, 1623-1677

The oldest of five artist brothers, Wallerant Vaillant was a successful Dutch artist who made several portraits of royalty. He frequently used the newly discovered technique of mezzotint, as he has done in this print, in which the surface of a copper plate is entirely roughened by a rocker and then burnished to achieve tonal effects.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Wallerand Vaillant
Title: The Artist's Wife and Children
Place: Flanders (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1665–1677
Medium: Mezzotint on paper
Dimensions: 37.4 × 29.6 cm (14 3/4 × 11 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
Reference Number: 1938.68
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Hollstein Vol. XXXI, 210

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