Farms in a Village from Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 1/16 x 6 1/8 in. (10.3 x 15.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
17.41.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate etching by Claes Jansz. Visscher captures a tranquil rural scene from the early seventeenth-century Netherlands. Created around 1610 as part of the print series *Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae* (“Some Small Regions and Villages of the Duchy of Brabant”), the work presents a cluster of farmsteads nestled among trees, rendered with fine, economical lines typical of the medium. Visscher, often associated with “The Master of the Small Landscapes,” specialized in such intimate views that celebrated the everyday countryside of the Low Countries. Etching allowed artis...
About the Artist
Claes Jansz. Visscher|Claes Jansz. Visscher|The Master of the Small Landscapes · 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...