Wallerant Vaillant
Dutch, 1623-1677
The Artist's Wife and Children
INV-2680
Wallerant Vaillant
Dutch, 1623-16771665/77
The Artist's Wife and Children
Wallerant Vaillant Dutch, 1623-1677 →mezzotintprint
Date
1665/77
Medium
Mezzotint on paper
Dimensions
37.4 × 29.6 cm (14 3/4 × 11 11/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
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.
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