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
Origin: Flanders
Date: 1665–1677
Medium: Mezzotint on paper
Dimensions: 374 × 296 mm
Credit Line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
Reference Number: 1938.68
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Hollstein Vol. XXXI, 210

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