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Lucas van Leyden — Man and Woman Walking in a Landscape
Lucas van Leyden

Man and Woman Walking in a Landscape

This engraving by Lucas van Leyden depicts a gentleman and lady strolling through an expansive landscape rendered with the artist's characteristic fine linear detail and atmospheric perspective. The composition balances the intimate human figures in the foreground with an elaborate vista of rolling terrain, distant buildings, and carefully observed natural elements that recede into the background. Van Leyden's masterful use of the engraving medium creates subtle tonal gradations through careful hatching, demonstrating the technical virtuosity that made him one of the Northern Renaissance's most accomplished printmakers.

Medium
engraving on laid paper with a fragmentary Cross of Lorainne watermark (cf. New Hollstein Ia-b)

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Old Master Prints

November 29, 2024

Estimate: $500$700

Lot 626

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Lucas van Leyden, Man and Woman Walking in a Landscape

This engraving by Lucas van Leyden depicts a gentleman and lady strolling through an expansive landscape rendered with the artist's characteristic fine linear detail and atmospheric perspective. The composition balances the intimate human figures in the foreground with an elaborate vista of rolling terrain, distant buildings, and carefully observed natural elements that recede into the background. Van Leyden's masterful use of the engraving medium creates subtle tonal gradations through careful hatching, demonstrating the technical virtuosity that made him one of the Northern Renaissance's most accomplished printmakers.

Medium
engraving on laid paper with a fragmentary Cross of Lorainne watermark (cf. New Hollstein Ia-b)
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Print, Intimate, Dutch, Figures In Landscape, Allegorical, 16th Century, Engraving, Couple, Northern Renaissance, Romantic

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