The Carpenter
Medium
Engraving; second state of three
Dimensions
Plate: 3 15/16 × 5 5/8 in. (10 × 14.3 cm) Sheet: 4 1/4 × 6 1/16 in. (10.8 × 15.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number
20.24.10
Tags
HousesTreesWorkingHuman Figures
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...