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Lucas van Leyden, designer

Ornament with Two Sphinxes and a Winged Man, 1528

Description

Maker

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

Title

Ornament with Two Sphinxes and a Winged Man

Year

1528

Medium

Engraving on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 11.9 x 7.6 cm (4 11/16 x 3 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Verso:in pencil inscribed, LC:B.162C26095In Plate--Dated and initialed, LC:1528/L

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum purchase: gift of Murray S. Danforth, Jr.

Object Number

50.324

Projects & Publications

Publications

La Peintre Graveur, 1803-1821

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Visions and Revisions

February 15 - August 4, 2019

Here two monstrous hybrid creatures stand on each side of a seated winged man. This small composition is an ornament design, inspired by ancient Roman painted decorations known as grotesques. Working on a small scale, Netherlandish artist Lucas van Leyden creates a vivid sense of relief by setting his figures against a dark background built up from a dense grid of engraved lines.

Inspired by Italian prints and works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas was the first Dutch artist to become famous for his engravings, among the most refined early achievements in the technique. Lucas’s plates were often reprinted and copied in later centuries. In 1879, the engraver James S. Gill made a faithful, though reversed, copy of the print.

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