Boar Hunt

Prints and Drawings

1717

Gerhard Janssen
Dutch, 1636-1725

A stained-glass painter from Utrecht, Gerhard Janssen was also an experimental etcher, though he produced fewer than a dozen landscapes in total. All of them were deeply etched on iron plates and share an idiosyncratic solarizing effect created by the artist’s reversal of the usual relationship of light and dark. He stopped out the areas that were to remain white before immersing the plates in acid, with the result that his figures glow, almost as if they too were part of a window. The date and Janssen’s signature appear in reverse, another indication of his unfamiliarity with the medium.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Gerhard Janssen
Title: Boar Hunt
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
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Medium: Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 19.8 × 28.8 cm (7 13/16 × 11 3/8 in.); Plate: 20.8 × 29.4 cm (8 1/4 × 11 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Hannan Fund
Reference Number: 1956.1214
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