Cleveland Museum of Art
Sacrifice
Giovanni David
- Date
- c. 1775–1776
- Medium
- etching and aquatint printed in black and brown, heightened with white gouache
- Culture
- Italy, 18th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
David was the most intriguing Genoese print-maker of the 18th century. Like Francisco Goya, his Spanish contemporary, he was a very early practitioner of aquatint, a technique invented in France about 1765. David's free, painterly handling of this type of etching medium, which produces the effect of a wash, created subtle effects of light and atmosphere.
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