The Knight and Lansquenet
Hans Wechtlin
1507–1519
- Medium
- chiaroscuro woodcut (in blue and black)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 27 x 18 cm (10 5/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
- Genre
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Germany
About
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.
