A Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds Playing a Viola and Panpipes
1496/1497
Medium
watercolor and gouache heightened with pen and ink and gold, pasted back onto page 1of "Idylls and Other Texts"
Dimensions
page size: 31 x 20.3 cm (12 3/16 x 8 in.) overall size (book closed): 32.4 x 21.6 cm (12 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Woodner Collection
Accession Number
2005.1.1.a
About the Artist
Albrecht Dürer · 1471–1528
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) stands as the preeminent figure of the Northern Renaissance and arguably the most influential artist in the history of printmaking. Born in Nuremberg on May 21, 1471, and dying in the same city on April 6, 1528, Dürer revolutionized the status of the artist in Northern Europe, transforming printmaking from a commercial craft into an independent fine art and establishing ...