1510
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Milkmaid is a 1510 ink by Lucas van Leyden, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This black-and-white print shows two cows standing in a wooded area. A woman in a loose dress leans against a tree, while a man in a hat and coat holds a stick near the cows. The trees are tall with bare branches, and the ground looks rough and uneven. The artist used fine lines and shading to show texture, like the folds in the woman’s dress and the fur on the cows. This is a type of printmaking called *engraving*. Next, look up engraving to see how artists like this carved images into metal plates.
Lucas van Leyden (1494 – 8 August 1533), was a Dutch painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and was a very accomplished engraver.
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