Landscape with Two Pines
Medium
etching
Dimensions
sheet: 11.8 × 16.3 cm · platemark: 11.8 × 16.3 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1953.627
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
Primarily a painter and draftsman, Albrecht Altdorfer made only nine etchings, which were intended to imitate his drawings. Those he made between 1522 and 1525—printed in very small numbers for a growing market of print collector—are considered the first prints in European art to depict pure landscape without narrative or devotional content. Here, he displayed remarkable freedom of draftsmanship and apparent spontaneity. The site depicted cannot be readily identified, and Altdorfer probably comp...