Cleveland Museum of Art
The Knight and Lansquenet
Hans Wechtlin
- Date
- c. 1512
- Medium
- chiaroscuro woodcut (in blue and black)
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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.
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