Room 62

Early Engravers

um 1470–1533, Upper Rhine (Colmar), the Netherlands (Leiden), Late Gothic and Northern Renaissance

Martin Schongauer of Colmar was the first painter to turn engraving into a great art: his fine, clearly drawn prints travelled all over Europe, and the young Dürer wanted to study with him. Lucas van Leyden engraved masterly plates while still a teenager and told biblical stories with wit, landscape and people of his own day.

All works

• Bust of a Monk Assisting at Communion
• The Dance of Saint Mary Magdalene
• Young Woman Wearing a Scarf
• Herod and Herodias
• Virgin and Child with the Apple
• The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket
• The Tribulations of Saint Anthony
• Solomon's Idolatry
• Christ Carrying the Cross
• The Adoration of the Magi
• The Resurrection
• Golgotha
• Christ Enthroned, with Two Angels
• David Playing the Harp before Saul
• The Flight into Egypt
• The Conversion of Saint Paul
• The Crucifixion with Four Angels
• Abigail and David
• A Censer
• Hector of Troy, Alexander of Macedon, Julius Caesar
• The Nativity
• Joshua, David, Judas Maccabeus
• Elephant
• The Mouth of Truth
• The Madonna
• Portrait of a Young Man with a Skull
• The Betrayal and Capture of Christ
• Adam and Eve after Their Expulsion from Paradise
• The Agony in the Garden
• Arthur, Charlemagne, Godfrey of Bouillon
• A Foolish Virgin
• The Triumph of Mordecai
• The Flagellation
• Jezebel and Ahab
• The Bearing of the Cross with Saint Veronica
• The Holy Family