Farm, from The Small Landscapes
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 5 1/4 x 7 5/8 in. (13.4 x 19.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939
Accession Number
39.94.2
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Farm, from *The Small Landscapes*** (1559–61) is a exquisite etching measuring 5¼ x 7⅝ inches, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department. This intimate print emerged from a remarkable collaboration among Netherlandish masters: engravers Johannes and Lucas van Doetecum, Hieronymus Cock, Bruegel the Elder, and the enigmatic Master of the Small Landscapes. during the Renaissance in the Low Countries, it belongs to the innovative *Small Landscapes* series, which detailed rural vignettes in affordable print form. Etching, a relatively new technique at the time...
About the Artist
Johannes van Doetecum I|Lucas van Doetecum|The Master of the Small Landscapes|Hieronymus Cock|Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish|Netherlandish) · 1528 |1527 –1605 |1606
Netherlandish, 1528/32–1605|Netherlandish, Leeuwarden 1527–1606 (?) Antwerp (?)