Landscape with a Village Church

1545

Augustin Hirschvogel

Associated Names
Augustin Hirschvogel

Artist, German, 1503 - 1553

The image depicts a village scene with a church, houses, trees, hills, and a distant castle-like structure. The style appears to be an etching or early woodcut, using fine line work and intricate detailing. The color palette is monochromatic, with shades of sepia or grayscale. Two large trees in the foreground frame the scene, with hills and houses in the distance.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 15.6 x 18.9 cm (6 1/8 x 7 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1980.60.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schwarz 1917, no. 68

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1986

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 1986.

2019

  • The Renaissance of Etching, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Albertina Museum, Vienna, 2019-2020 (shown in New York only), no. 45, repro.

Bibliography

1917

  • Schwarz, Karl. Augustin Hirschvogel: Ein deutscher Meister der Renaissance. Berlin: Julius Bard, 1917. Reprint. 2 vols. New York: Collectors Editions, 1971. Schwarz, as Bartsch before him, listed Hirschvogel'sse

2019

  • Jenkins, Catherine, Orenstein, Nadine, and Spira, Freyda. The Renaissance of Etching. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Albertina Museum, Vienna, 2019-2020: 14, no. 45.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate artist's monogram within date: 15 AH 45

Wikidata ID

Q74034515

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