DETAILS
- Artist
- Esaias van de Velde
- Date
- 1610
- Medium
- chiaroscuro woodcut (lineblock and two toneblocks, dark and light green)
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Prints
- Culture
- Netherlands, 16th century
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
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THE ARTIST
Esaias van de Velde
Esaias van de Velde was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker who pioneered realistic landscape painting in the Netherlands.
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