Boar Hunt
1717
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.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4933
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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 ...