Imaginary Landscape
Hanns Lautensack
1543 · Pen and dark brown ink and brush and grayish blue watercolor, washed in blue, heightened with brush and opaque white, on greenish blue prepared paper. · Robert Lehman Collection
This drawing, dated 1543, is one of a homogeneous group of eight that correspond to a series of landscape etchings all attributable to Hanns Lautensack in his early years. Sharing the same decorative quality and refined sense of craft, these related drawings belong to a tradition of ‘imaginary landscapes” that gained popularity around the middle of the sixteenth century, especially in the Netherlands. The markedly decorative execution of the works suggests their intended display in a “studio” context, part of the growing mania to display art collections in private Kunstkammern.
- Artist
- Hanns Lautensack
- Date
- 1543
- Medium
- Pen and dark brown ink and brush and grayish blue watercolor, washed in blue, heightened with brush and opaque white, on greenish blue prepared paper.
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
