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Early mezzotint by Wallerant Vaillant, Siegen's assistant or tutor. Young man reading, with statue of Cupid. Probably made using light to dark technique. 27.5 cm × 21.3 cm (10 + 13 ⁄ 16 in × 8 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) The first mezzotints by Ludwig von Siegen were made using the light to dark method. The metal plate was tooled to create indentations ...
Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching that produces areas of tone rather than lines. For this reason it has mostly been used in conjunction with etching, to give both lines and shaded tone. [ 1 ]
Before the invention of tonal intaglio techniques such as mezzotint and aquatint surface tone was really the only way to add tonal effects, but the technique sometimes continued to be used with the new tonal techniques, especially in the etching revival than began around 1850, the "most visible characteristic of [which]... was an obsession with ...
Stipple competed with mezzotint as a tonal method of printmaking, and while it lacked the rich depth of tone of mezzotint, it had the great advantage that far more impressions could be taken from a plate. [8] During the late eighteenth century, some printmakers, including Francesco Bartolozzi, began to use colour in stipple engraving.
4-colour mezzotint of Louis XV by Le Blon, 1739 Page from Le Blon's 1725 Coloritto describing his RYB three-color printing process [1]. Jacob Christoph Le Blon, or Jakob Christoffel Le Blon, (2 May 1667 – 16 May 1741) was a painter and engraver from Frankfurt who invented a halftone color printing system with three and four copper dyes using an RYB color model, which served as the foundation ...
Intaglio techniques include collagraphy, engraving, etching, mezzotint, aquatint. Planographic, where the matrix retains its original surface, but is specially prepared and/or inked to allow for the transfer of the image. Planographic techniques include lithography, monotyping, and digital techniques.
Elisha Kirkall, Heroic Stormy Landscape, mezzotint and etching printed à la poupée in two colours, after Jan van Huysum, 1724. The earliest known example of the technique is an impression of a religious engraving of about 1525 by Agostino Veneziano, where the Virgin and Child are printed in red, and the surrounding saints and background in blue.
Young boy, possibly the brother of the artist, Mezzotint The painter Maria van Oosterwijck, 1671, by Wallerant Vaillant A couple painted by Wallerant Vaillant. ( Gemäldegalerie , Berlin) Wallerant Vaillant (30 May 1623 – 28 August 1677) was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age and one of the first artists to use the mezzotint technique, which ...