Farm with Shed for a Cart, from Landscapes (Verscheyden aerdige Lanthuysen...)
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 10.3 × 15.8 cm (4 1/16 × 6 1/4 in.); sheet: 17.8 × 26 cm (7 1/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
268440
Art Historical Context
Claes Jansz. Visscher's *Farm with Shed for a Cart*, in 1620, is a charming etching from his series *Landscapes (Verscheyden aerdige Lanthuysen)*, or "Various Pleasant Landscapes." As a leading Dutch printmaker during the Golden Age Visscher captured the serene beauty of rural Holland, reflecting the era's growing fascination with everyday pastoral scenes. This intimate plate (10.3 × 15.8 cm) depicts a modest farmstead with a cart shed, evoking the simplicity and fertility of the Dutch countryside amid the prosperity of the Dutch Republic. Etched on ivory laid paper—a fine, early handmade var...
About the Artist
Claes Jansz. Visscher · 1586–1652
Claes Jansz. Visscher, also known as Nicolas Joannis Visscher II or Joannis Piscator, was a prominent Dutch Golden Age draughtsman, engraver, mapmaker, and publisher born in Amsterdam in 1587 and died there on June 19, 1652. The son of the printmaker and publisher Jan Claesz. Visscher (c. 1550–1612), he learned the art of etching and printing from his father, helping to expand the family trade int...