
Albrecht Altdorfer, known as one of the Little Masters (in German, Kleinmeister) along with Georg Pencz and the brothers Barthel and Sebald Beham, excelled at creating prints on a minute scale, whether in intaglio or relief. This woodcuts is part of a series entitled The Fall and Redemption of Man contrasting the expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise with Christ’s Passion narrative. Connoisseurs would have collected these diminutive prints as an entire cycle and often pasted them into albums.

Altarpiece with the Beautiful Virgin of Regensburg and Saints Christopher, Mary Magdalen, Florian and Catherine Standing in Niches, with God the Father Above
Albrecht Altdorfer German, c.1480-1538

'The Beautiful Virgin of Regensburg' with the Child on a Throne, Surrounded by Angels with Musical Instruments
Albrecht Altdorfer German, c.1480-1538

Landscape with A Double Spruce
Albrecht Altdorfer German, c.1480-1538