Five Landsknechte and an Oriental Man on Horseback

Prints and Drawings

c. 1495

Albrecht Dürer
German, 1471-1528

Dürer may have been the first printmaker to engrave a group of Landsknechte, a theme that proved exceedingly popular, as the adjoining prints by Urs Graf, Master M. Z., and Daniel Hopfer confirm. The Master M. Z. engraving may be the second earliest such image, and it borrows costuming and stances from this sheet. In a large, early woodcut seen nearby, Dürer popularized the knight and Landsknecht genre, highlighting the hierarchy between mounted cavalry and foot soldiers.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Title: Five Landsknechte and an Oriental Man on Horseback
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1490–1500
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 13.2 × 14.5 cm (5 1/4 × 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1938.1439
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Meder 81 a/e

Bartsch 88

Strauss 6

Schoch, Mende, & Scherbaum 4

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