Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Small Bagpiper

Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine

Date

1781

Medium

Etching on woven Japan

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine was a French painter and printmaker active in Poland in the late 18th century. Norblin's charming miniature etchings, representing mostly male heads, street sellers, and vagabonds, reflect both in subject and technique the profound influence of Rembrandt's prints. Norblin was also drawn to Polish subjects, capturing the unfamiliar, exotic world around him in his depictions of men with colossal fur hats and curled moustaches, Cossacks, and Polish historical figures. Europe

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