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Lucas van Leyden

Abraham and the Three Angels, 1513

Description

Maker

  • Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1494-1533, Netherlandish

Title

Abraham and the Three Angels

Year

1513

Medium

Engraving on light weight cream laid paper, trimmed within platemark

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate/Image: 17.8 x 13.8 cm (7 x 5 7/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Verso:in pencil inscribed, LC:B15/E.S.60In Plate--Initialed, center of right edge:L

Identification

State

only state

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Murray S. Danforth, Jr.

Object Number

50.326

Projects & Publications

Publications

The Brilliant Line

Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650
Read Online

La Peintre Graveur, 1803-1821

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Brilliant Line

September 18, 2009 - January 3, 2010

The knee of the angel at left shows Lucas van Leyden’s important contribution to the development of tone in engraving technique. He achieved the effect of modeled shadow by cutting courses of curved parallel lines and then adding shorter lines in between. In comparison, Lucas's contemporary Albrecht Dürer rarely applied this formula for shading, instead preferring a system of straight, crossed lines with flicking. Lucas’s technique may have influenced the invention of the engraved swelling groove some forty years later, which would achieve the same general effect with fewer lines.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Abraham and the Three Angels with the accession number of 50.326. To request a higher resolution file, please submit an online request.

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