Aurora (Landscape at Dawn)

Accession Number
1969/2.154

Title
Aurora (Landscape at Dawn)

Artist(s)
Hendrik Goudt

Object Creation Date
1613

Medium & Support
engraving and etching on paper

Dimensions
6 in x 6 ¾ in (15.24 cm x 17.15 cm);19 7/16 in x 14 ⅜ in (49.37 cm x 36.51 cm)

Credit Line
The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection

Label copy
Gallery Rotations Winter 2014
Hendrik Goudt
Netherlands, 1585–1630
Aurora (Landscape at Dawn)
1613
Engraving and etching
The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection, 1969/2.154
Like Daubigny’s print (adjacent), Goudt’s depicts a landscape gradually emerging from the darkness, the light of day revealing its form as night steadily dissipates. But while Daubigny highlights the toils of man in the center foreground of the composition, Goudt’s small but dramatic engraving focuses on the landscape itself, blending naturalism and fantasy through descriptiveness and strong light effects.
This engraving is one of only seven that the artist, an important Dutch printmaker, completed during his career. Trained initially in his hometown of The Hague, Goudt traveled to Rome in 1604 where he began to study designs by Adam Elsheimer (1578–1610), a German artist who worked in Rome and specialized in small oil paintings on copper.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Western

Rights
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Keywords
Landscapes
hills
morning
trees

2 Related Resources

Landscape and Nature, Comparative and Historical
(Part of 3 Learning Collections)
W19 Forsythe Middle School
(Part of: Resources Made by Isabel Engel)

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