Albrecht Altdorfer, Landscape with Two Pines
Severance Fund, 1953.627 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Albrecht Altdorfer

Landscape with Two Pines

1521–22

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
etching
Dimensions
11.8 × 16.3 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-482279

Primarily a painter and draftsman, Albrecht Altdorfer made only nine etchings, which were intended to imitate his drawings. Those he made between 1522 and 1525—printed in very small numbers for a growing market of print collector—are considered the first prints in European art to depict pure landscape without narrative or devotional content. Here, he displayed remarkable freedom of draftsmanship and apparent spontaneity. The site depicted cannot be readily identified, and Altdorfer probably composed it from his imagination. Early etchings, such as this one, were made on iron rather than coppe…

Provenance

Severance Fund, 1953.627

Registry history

  • 1521–22 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints

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