Young Hare

Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Year
1502
Medium
Watercolor and gouache on paper

Young Hare (Feldhase) is Albrecht Dürer’s celebrated watercolor study of a hare, painted with extraordinary precision and sensitivity to fur, whisker, and light. Long regarded as a pinnacle of observational drawing in the Northern Renaissance, the work captures a living animal in a momentary stillness and remains one of the most reproduced nature studies in the history of European art.