Village Road
Medium
etching
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Fund
Accession Number
1975.59.14
Art Historical Context
Step into the serene world of *Village Road*, an exquisite etching published in 1612 by Claes Jansz Viss. This print traces its origins to a collaborative lineage: Visscher worked after designs by Johannes van Doetechum the Elder and his brother Lucas, who in turn realized the inventive compositions of the anonymous "Master of the Small Landscapes Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Department of Prints (CG-E) through the Andrew W. Mellon Fund, it exemplifies early 17th-century printmaking at its finest. Created during the Northern Renaissance's Golden Age prelude, *Village Road* belongs ...