The Knight and  Lansquenet

Description

By 1509 color prints were successfully produced by printing the line block in black but using a second block to print the background color. Unprinted areas of white paper formed the highlights. Wechtlin’s The Knight and Lansquenet is a beautiful example of this technique.

Provenance

Prince of Liechtenstein; Prince of Liechtenstein, Feldsberg, stamped (not in Lugt), verso, lower left, in blue

The Knight and Lansquenet

Hans Wechtlin

c. 1512

Accession Number

1950.241

Medium

chiaroscuro woodcut (in blue and black)

Dimensions

Sheet: 27 x 18 cm (10 5/8 x 7 1/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

John L. Severance Fund