Claude Mellan
Claude Mellan ranks among the defining engravers of the seventeenth century, an artist whose burin work shaped the look of French printmaking and whose subjects ranged across biblical narrative and portraiture. His engravings are prized for their disciplined line and for the way swelling and tapering strokes model form without recourse to crosshatching. This archive holds two of his sheets, both engravings, among them Jacob Draws Water for Rachel's Animals. The impressions kept here may include later printings, so the collection reflects the afterlife of Mellan's plates as much as their first publication.
2 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
