The Gate in the Rocks

1554

Hanns Lautensack

Associated Names
Hanns Lautensack

Artist, German, 1524 - 1561/1566

The image displays a detailed landscape scene with a variety of natural elements. The perspective is slightly elevated, showing intricate details in the foreground and a range of hills or mountains in the background. The horizon is low in the composition. The area features trees, houses, and other structures. Two tall, twisted trees with detailed bark and foliage are central. The etching technique is evident in the fine lines depicting branches and leaves. The color scheme is monochromatic, with various shades of gray creating depth through light and shadow. Clouds are delicately etched in the sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1949.14.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 30

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 55, repro.

1959

  • Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, 1959, no catalogue.

1969

  • Prints and drawings of the Danube School; an exhibition of South German and Austrian graphic art of 1500 to 1560, Yale University Art Gallery, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969-1970, no. 107, repro.

1971

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1971, no catalogue.

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 42, repro.

1973

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 74.

1985

  • Landscape Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, no cat.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1978 (vol. XXI), no. 20.

1957

  • Schmitt, Annegrit. Hans Lautensack. Nuremberg: Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg, 1957, no. 66.

1969

  • Yale UAG 1969, 107.

1993

  • Wood, Christopher S. Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape. London, 1993: 272, fig. 199.

Wikidata ID

Q65072858

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