The Knight and Lansquenet (c. 1512): Art, History and Details

The Knight and Lansquenet (c. 1512) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Hans Wechtlin (German, 1480/85–after 1526).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

By 1509 color prints were successfully produced by printing the line block in black but using a second block to print the background color. Unprinted areas of white paper formed the highlights. Wechtlin’s The Knight and Lansquenet is a beautiful example of this technique.

Object facts

• Title: The Knight and Lansquenet
• Date: c. 1512
• Creator attribution: Hans Wechtlin (German, 1480/85–after 1526)
• Culture: Germany
• Type: Print
• Technique: chiaroscuro woodcut (in blue and black)
• Dimensions: Sheet: 27 x 18 cm (10 5/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Chiaroscuro
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1950.241

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Francis, Henry. "Woodcuts by Hans Wechtlin." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 40, no. 2 (February 1953): 30-32.

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