Cleveland Museum of Art
The Little Courier
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5
- Date
- c. 1496
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Germany, late 15th Century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 148324
From LinkedCulture
This tiny engraving is no bigger than a playing card, yet Albrecht Dürer packed an entire world into it. Made around 1496, when Dürer was in his mid-twenties, the print shows a bearded rider on a powerful horse at full stride, sword at his side, raising a horn or staff as a distant castle fades into the wooded hills behind him. His interlocked monogram sits at the bottom center. It matters because Dürer used graduated cross-hatching here to prove that engraving could rival painting in its depth and drama.
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A knight on horseback rides through a forested area.
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- Credit line
- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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