The Small Bagpiper 1781
jeanpierrenorblindelagourdaine
toned paper
light pencil work
pencil sketch
personal sketchbook
ink drawing experimentation
sketchbook drawing
watercolour illustration
remaining negative space
sketchbook art
watercolor
"The Small Bagpiper" is an etching created in 1781 by Polish artist Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine. This detailed artwork depicts a man in traditional attire playing a bagpipe. The etching's small size and the focus on the bagpiper's figure suggest an intimate and informal portrait. The work is a fine example of Norblin's skillful use of line and detail in his etchings, which often depicted scenes of everyday life in Poland.
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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.
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