"Les Musiciens"
Vintage Aquatint Etching by Roger Hebbelinck
Hand signed and titled by the artist in pencil
Image
"Les Musiciens"
unframed
Color Aquatint Etching on Paper
Pencil signed and titled by the artist
Stamped by the printer on the back
Paper Size: 25-1/4" x 19-1/2"
Image Size: 16-3/4" x 12-3/4"
Condition : Great. Slight creases and tears on the very edge of the paper on the right side, not affecting the image and easy to mat over.
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Roger Hebbelinck (Brussels, 1912) was a Belgian artist. He
worked as a painter, watercolorist, engraver and filmmaker, but was mainly
known for his engraving. He was a pupil of A. Bastien, J. Delville, G. Van
Strydonck, A. Stevens, I. Van Mens, J. Van Santen and P. Mathieu, with whom he
studied at the Brussels Academy. There, he was taught watercolor by I. van Mens
and engraving by J. van Santen. He engraved a large number of quaint city
corners in historic cities. He provided the etchings for E. Verhaeren's book
The Illusive Villages. As a filmmaker, he directed, among other things, the
documentary The Birth of an Etching which won a prize at the Cannes Film
Festival and a documentary on the construction of the atonium. As a visual
artist, he created a print shop etching before the war in 1932 and engraved
many picturesque cityscapes in Belgium. He has also engraved and watercolored
in the south of France and Spain. Particularly interesting is his color
engraving, which he made after his colleagues V. de Saedeleer and A.
Saverys.
Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching that produces areas of tone rather than lines. For this reason it has mostly been used in conjunction with etching, to give outlines. It has also been used historically to print in color, both by printing with multiple plates in different colors, and by making monochrome prints that were then hand-colored with watercolor.
It has been in regular use since the later 18th century, and was most widely used between about 1770 and 1830, when it was used both for artistic prints and decorative ones. After about 1830 it lost ground to lithography and other techniques. There have been periodic revivals among artists since then. An aquatint plate wears out relatively quickly, and is less easily reworked than other intaglio plates. Many of Goya's plates were reprinted too often posthumously, giving very poor impressions.
Among the most famous prints using the aquatint technique are the major series by Goya, many of The Birds of America by John James Audubon (with the color added by hand), and prints by Mary Cassatt printed in color using several plates.
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