grisaille
- A style of monochromatic
painting in shades
of gray, used especially for the representation
of relief sculpture,
or to simulate one. Achromatic painting. May refer
to a gray underpainting,
laid for subsequent color glazing.
Also, a kind of paint which
can be fired onto glass.
(pr. greez-eye', or griz-eye')
Examples of grisaille:
Jacob de Wit (Dutch, 1695-1754), Children Playing with a Goat, grisaille,
oil on canvas,
26 3/4 x 41 inches (67.9 x 104.1 cm), Metropolitan Museum of
Art, NY.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venetian,
1696-1770), A Female Allegorical Figure, grisaille,
1740-50, oil on canvas,
gold ground,
oval, 32 x 25 3/8 inches
(81.3 x 64.5 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. See allegory.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Workshop
(French, 1780-1867), Odalisque in Grisaille, 1824-34, oil on canvas,
32 3/4 x 43 inches (83.2 x 109.2 cm), Metropolitan Museum of
Art, NY. Ingres produced this picture several years after painting
the original color version, The Grand Odalisque, now in
the Louvre. See Neoclassicism
and odalisque.
Charles Bird King (American, 1785-1862),
after Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Jefferson, 1836, oil
grisaille on wood panel,
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. See profile.
Frederic Remington (American, 1861-1909),
Fight Over a Waterhole, 1897, oil
on canvas, 27 x 40 inches,
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA. See nocturne.
Chuck Close (American, 1940-), Frank, 1969, acrylic
on canvas, 108 x 84 inches,
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Also see Photo-Realism.
Also see monochrome.
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