Saint Jerome in Penitence, in a Cave, from "Holzschnitte alter deutscher Meister in den Original-Platten gesammelt von Hans Albrecht von Derschau"
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 5/16 × 5 9/16 in. (18.5 × 14.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985
Accession Number
1986.1180.12
Tags
About the Artist
Albrecht Altdorfer|Hans Albrecht von Derschau|Rudolph Zacharias Becker|Rudolph Zacharias Becker · 1475–1538
Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538) was a German painter, printmaker, and draftsman who stands as one of the founders of landscape painting as an independent genre. Born in Regensburg or nearby Altdorf, he learned art from his father Ulrich, a painter and miniaturist. Altdorfer spent most of his life in Regensburg, becoming a citizen in 1505 and later serving as the city's official architect and a m...