Title-Boarder with Three Stags and a Hind
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 3/16 × 5 1/8 in. (18.3 × 13 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.95.278
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold the delicate woodcut *Title-Border with Three Stags and a Hind by Hans Cranach, gem from the German Renaissance. Created on a modest sheet measuring just 7 3/16 × 5 1/8 inches, this print showcases three majestic stags and a hind poised gracefully amid foliage, likely designed as an ornamental border for title pages or book illustrations. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it entered the collection through The Elisha Whittelsey Fund in 1949. Cranach, son of the renowned Lucas Cranach the Elder, worked in his family's bustling Wittenberg workshop...