Wooded Landscape
Medium
Etching; third state of four
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 3/4 × 8 1/8 in. (14.6 × 20.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.1378
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the tranquil "Wooded Landscape," an exquisite etching from 1644 by Wences Hollar after a design by Pieter van Av. This third state of four captures a lush, densely foliaged scene, measuring 5 3/4 × 8 1/8 inches, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department. Hollar, a Bohemian-born etcher renowned for his meticulous, collaborated with Flemish artist van Avont, whose pastoral landscapes evoked the natural beauty of the Low Countries during the Dutch Golden Age. Etching, Hollar's preferred medium, involved drawing lines into a wax-coated copper plate wi...
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar|Pieter van Avont · 1607–1677
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) was a prolific Bohemian etcher who became one of the most accomplished printmakers of the seventeenth century. Born in Prague, he trained under Matthäus Merian in Frankfurt before entering the service of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1636. Hollar spent most of his career in England, where he produced approximately 2,740 etchings documenting an extraordinary range...