The etching carves sharp contrasts—light fractures the rocky slope where a shepherd clutches his staff, while another scrambles upward from shadow. Rembrandt’s needle etches urgency into the divine encounter, as if revelation demands physical struggle.

What does the angle of the descending light reveal about the figures’ unseen gaze?
#Rembrandt #Etching #ClevelandMuseumofArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.115

The Wheelwright's, 1912-1957

etching 148 x 177 mm - Signed "E. HESKETH HUBBARD" pencil L.R. Title in pencil left centre The Wheelwright's (l.c.)No. 13 2nd state (l.l.) Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/1841213/source

#ExteriorViews #Workshops #Wheelwrights #TreeTrunks #PlankConstruction #PitchedRoofs #Figures #CastShadows #Print #Etching #Museum #Museums

I think im happy with this final proof!

Prolly just gonna to a small edition for this one. It's been a fun little diversion  

#mastoArt #printmaking #etching

Rain blurs the edges of an abbey farm, its stone walls dissolving into the damp air. Legros’s needle traces every furrow in the field and crease in the laborers’ clothes, grounding quiet industry in ink.

What does the weight of that suspended sky press into the earth below?
#ClevelandMuseumofArt #Etching #19thCenturyArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.565

+ LA DENSITÉ DES IMAGES +

A découvrir à l'école d'art de Mortagne-du-Nord (59)
Jusqu'au 12 juin.
Honorée de présenter ma première exposition personnelle dans ce lieu incroyable.

#mortagnedunord
#artcontemporain
#gravure
#etching
#woodcut
#dessincobtemporain
#installationcontemporaine

Imitating the master: Tuesday W32Y5

Frank Short, late 19th century print artist, produced a very significant body of work, some of which was intentional and openly declared as copies of the work of JMW Turner, an early 19th century painter and print artist. Their lives only overlapped by 6 years, and I don't have any reason to think that they met. Why did Short do so many copies of Turner? His most clearly articulated reason was admiration, and others he cited were in order to learn and refine his skill. In addition to […]

https://benjaloo.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/imitating-the-master-monday-w32y5/

Saint Hilaire, eveque, 1630s

etching 216 x 125 mm - Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/1839982/source

#Saints #Vestments #Miters #Prayers #Faith #Worship #Altars #Christianity #ReligiousArt #Bishops #Mannerist #Print #Etching #Museums