Courtly Experiments: Early Portrait Etchings by Lucas van Leyden and Jan Gossart

For a brief moment in the early sixteenth-century Low Countries, etching became a significant technique for elite commissions. I examine the two earliest etchings made in the Low Countries as a case study: the portrait of Maximilian I by Lucas van Leyden and the portrait of Charles V by Jan Gossart,...

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Published inJournal of Historians of Netherlandish Art Vol. 16; no. 1; p. 1
Main Author Horbatsch, Olenka
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Highland Park Historians of Netherlandish Art 29.02.2024
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Etching
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Summary:For a brief moment in the early sixteenth-century Low Countries, etching became a significant technique for elite commissions. I examine the two earliest etchings made in the Low Countries as a case study: the portrait of Maximilian I by Lucas van Leyden and the portrait of Charles V by Jan Gossart, both made for the Hapsburg-Burgundian court in 1520. The etching technique was integral to the success of the two portrait prints, for both artists as well as their patron. This is a localized instance of artistic emulation and competition within the emergence of a new technique and subject: the Netherlandish portrait print.
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ISSN:1949-9833
DOI:10.5092/jhna.2024.16.1.2