Charcoal drawing techniques were perfected in France in the nineteenth century and taken to new expressive heights by artists such as Georges Seurat and Odilon Redon. This video includes a demonstration of those techniques.
Drawing with Charcoal: Historical Techniques of 19th-Century France
Video from The J. Paul Getty Museum
See also The Met’s page: How is a drawing made?
Cite this page as: The J. Paul Getty Museum, "Drawing with Charcoal: Historical Techniques of 19th-Century France," in Smarthistory, May 5, 2017, accessed October 3, 2024, https://smarthistory.org/drawing-with-charcoal-historical-techniques-of-19th-century-france/.
