The Master of the Small Landscapes
The Master of the Small Landscapes is the conventional name for an anonymous etcher of the sixteenth-century Netherlandish tradition, whose concise views of villages, farmsteads and rural roads helped shape the genre of the small landscape print. The plates are dated 1555–1559 in the Met's records, and the impressions here include later printings up to that span. This collection holds three sheets: two etchings in the first state of three and one drawing in pen and brown ink, among them Village View, Country Houses with a couple and cornfield in the foreground, and The Swan's Inn with Farms, both from the series The Small Landscapes (Praediorum Villarum).
3 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
