This print by Georges Rouault provides a contrast to the prints of Picasso, Miro and Leger within the museum's collection. Instead of colours or fluid energetic lines, the artist uses aquatint and drypoint to create an image of religious intensity. Aquatint is a variation of the intaglio technique developed to imitate the effect of a watercolour wash giving a rich tonal quality. Rouault was passionate about his printmaking practice and when his publisher tried to speed up the creative process by photo-etching Rouault's drawings onto metal plates Rouault destroyed all traces of the machine-made etchings and started again by hand.