Venus Crouching
Medium
Engraving; first state of two (New Hollstein)
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 3/8 × 1 9/16 in. (6.1 × 4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934
Accession Number
34.62.3
Tags
Venus
About the Artist
Albrecht Altdorfer|Marcantonio Raimondi · 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...