Landscape with a woman seated next to a man playing a hurdy-gurdy
Domenico Campagnola
ca. 1540
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 9 1/2 × 14 13/16 in. (24.2 × 37.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.522.29
Tags
Musical InstrumentsMenWomenLandscapesTrees
About the Artist
Domenico Campagnola · 1500–1564
Domenico Campagnola (c. 1500–1564), a Venetian Renaissance painter, engraver, and pioneering draftsman, was born around 1500, likely in Venice to German parents, and became a child prodigy under the tutelage of his adoptive father, Giulio Campagnola. Apprenticed to Giulio around 1507 in Venice, he mastered painting, drawing, engraving, and woodcutting from the esteemed Paduan engraver, whose stipp...