A Small Piece of Turf
1584
Medium
Brush with gouache and watercolor over traces of charcoal underdrawing
Dimensions
8 7/16 x 12 13/16 in. (21.5 x 32.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997
Accession Number
1997.20
Tags
Art Historical Context
**A Small Piece of Turf** (1584) by Hans captures the delicate beauty of nature in a remarkably intimate scale. This drawing depicts a modest patch of grass and wild plants teeming with life, including dragonflies poised among the blades. Created during the late Renaissance, Hoffmann, a Nuremberg-based artist renowned for his precise nature studies, invites viewers into a microcosm of the natural world, where every blade and insect feels vividly alive. Rendered in brush with gouache and watercolor faint charcoal underdrawing, the work showcases Hoffmann's masterful technique. Gouache provides...