Landscape with an Angler
Medium
Etching; third state of three (NH)
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 5/8 × 6 13/16 in. (11.7 × 17.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.1476
Tags
Art Historical Context
"Landscape with an Angler created in 1650, is a delicate etching attributed to Wenceslaus Hol after Jan Brueghel the Elder. Hollar, a masterful Bohemian printmaker known for his intricate reproductive works, captures the Flemish master's lush landscape style in this third state of three—a refined version where the artist likely burnished or reworked the plate for greater subtlety (NH). Measuring just 4 5/8 × 6 13/16 inches, this intimate print from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department invites close viewing, revealing Hollar's virtuoso linework etched into a copper pl...
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar|Jan Brueghel the Elder · 1607–1677
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) was a prolific Bohemian etcher who became one of the most accomplished printmakers of the seventeenth century. Born in Prague, he trained under Matthäus Merian in Frankfurt before entering the service of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1636. Hollar spent most of his career in England, where he produced approximately 2,740 etchings documenting an extraordinary range...