The Bear's Snout and Paws Are Caught in the Trunk of a Tree from Hendrick van Alcmar's Renard The Fox
1650–75
Medium
Engraving; third state of five
Dimensions
Plate: 3 3/4 × 4 9/16 in. (9.6 × 11.6 cm) Sheet: 4 1/16 × 4 7/8 in. (10.3 × 12.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.650.8(10)
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About the Artist
Allart van Everdingen · 1621–1675
Allaert van Everdingen (1621-1675) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker who introduced Scandinavian landscape painting to the Netherlands. Born in Alkmaar and baptized on June 18, 1621, he pioneered a distinctive genre of Nordic mountain scenery that profoundly influenced Dutch landscape painting and later inspired the Romantic movement. Van Everdingen holds a unique place in art history...