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| Lucas van Leyden Woman picking Fleas from a Dog 1510 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| attributed to Lucas van Leyden Dancing Soldiers ca. 1520 woodcut Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Lucas van Leyden Allegorical Figure of Prudence 1530 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Lucas van Leyden Allegorical Figure of Fortitude 1530 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Lucas van Leyden Beheading of St John the Baptist ca. 1513 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Lucas van Leyden Cain slaying Abel ca. 1520 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Lucas van Leyden Cain slaying Abel 1529 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Lucas van Leyden Ecce Homo 1510 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Lucas van Leyden Abraham and the Three Angels 1513 engraving Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Lucas van Leyden Children with Shield, Helmet and Banner ca. 1515 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Lucas van Leyden God creating Eve 1529 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Lucas van Leyden St John the Baptist in the Wilderness 1513 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Lucas van Leyden Mary Magdalen in Clouds 1518 etching and engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Lucas van Leyden Allegorical Figure of Hope 1530 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Lucas van Leyden Lot and his Daughters 1530 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Lucas van Leyden Young Man with a Skull ca. 1519 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
"As his name implies, Lucas van Leyden was born in Leiden. There is some controversy over the date of his birth. Carel van Mander in Het Schilder-Boek of 1604 says that Lucas was born in 1494 and thus his earliest dated engraving, Mohammed and the Monk Sergius, 1508, is the work of a fourteen-year-old prodigy. Opinion is divided over the question of Lucas' status as a wunderkind and several scholars believe it more likely that he was born around 1489. There is no confirming documentary evidence for either date. Lucas is mentioned in 1514 in the register of the civil guard in Leiden, and in 1515 and 1519 his name is listed among the crossbowmen of that city. Sometime around 1515 he married the daughter of a Leiden magistrate. Albrecht Dürer's diary entry and his silverpoint drawing of Lucas (Musée Wicar, Lille) confirm that the two artists met each other in Antwerp in 1521. According to Van Mander, Lucas made a second journey through the southern Netherlands, perhaps in 1527, when he met Jan Gossaert in MIddelburg. If we believe Van Mander, the artist's health deteriorated drastically following this trip and Lucas, who thought he had been poisoned by an envious colleague, was often ill and bedridden. He died in Leiden in the summer of 1533."
– John Oliver Hand and Martha Wolff, Early Netherlandish Painting (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1986)