Printmaking: Quick Facts

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Mary Cassatt: Woman Bathing

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Jane Avril

Engraving by the Master of the Playing Cards showing a poet in fur-trimmed clothing standing on grass, holding and reading a large sheet of paper.

Antonio Pollaiuolo: Battle of the Naked Men

Chiaroscuro woodcut The Crucifixion by Hans Baldung Grien shows Jesus on the cross with three mourners, including Mary, at the base, rendered in black and brown tones.

Engraved portrait by Robert Nanteuil of Marin Cureau de la Chambre, shown in a formal robe within an oval frame inscribed with his name and title, with a coat of arms below.

Jacques Callot: The Hangman's Tree

Etching by Hercules Seghers showing a rocky mountainous landscape with a winding river running through a valley, scattered vegetation, and distant hills.

Etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi showing a view through a stone archway onto a grand piazza with large arches, architectural details, and distant figures.

William Hogarth: The Cockpit

Illustration of vintage printing press with bold text reading Gutenberg's printing press and a blue arrow pointing to the press, against a purple background.

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Nathaniel Currier

American lithographer

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James Merritt Ives

American lithographer

Rembrandt: Self-Portrait

Rembrandt

Dutch artist

William Blake

William Blake

English engraver, artist, and poet

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Spanish artist

Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas

French artist

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Italian artist

Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat

Albrecht Dürer

German artist

Honoré Daumier

Honoré Daumier

French artist

Camille Pissarro: Self-Portrait

Camille Pissarro

French artist

Henri Matisse stands in a studio wearing a painter's smock, holding a palette beside a wooden ladder, with abstract artwork visible in the background.

Henri Matisse

French artist

Andrea Mantegna: Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga

Andrea Mantegna

Italian artist

Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian-born artist

The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.

William Hogarth

English artist

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Paul Klee

Swiss-German artist

van Dyck, Anthony

Anthony van Dyck

Flemish painter

J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838

J.M.W. Turner

English painter

Oil on canvas self-portrait by Edouard Manet, showing the artist in a brown coat and black hat, holding paintbrushes and a palette against a dark background.

Édouard Manet

French painter

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

French artist

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall

Belorussian-born French artist

"Self-Portrait Etching at a Window" etching (drypoint and burin in black on ivory laid paper) by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648; in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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