Portret van Chilian Vogler
Jakob Lederlein
1596
Medium
paper
Dimensions
103; 139
About this artwork
houtsnede; tekst in boekdruk op verso
Art Historical Context
**Portret van Ch Vogler** is a delicate wood portrait created by Jakob Lederlein in1596, measuring just 139 mm high 103 mm wide on. This small-scale print the likeness of Chilianler, likely a notable figure from late 16th-century Europe during the waning years of the Renaissance. Lederlein, a skilled printmaker of the Northern Renaissance tradition, employed the woodcut technique—houtsnede in Dutch—to produce this intricate image, a method where the artist carves a design into a wooden block, inks the raised surfaces, and presses it onto paper for reproduction. Woodcuts like this were revolut...