Two Peasants Fighting, c. 1475/1480

Not on View

Medium

drypoint

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 7.3 x 6.6 cm (2 7/8 x 2 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 7, p.141, no. 64, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.9077

Artists / Makers

Master of the Housebook (artist) German, active c. 1470 - 1500

Image Use

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Provenance

Gustav von Rath [b. 1888], Krefeld (Lugt 2772); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased 1929 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rath, Gustav von
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Sessler, Charles

Exhibition History

1933: A Century of Progress, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933, no. 24, repro.

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 79, repro.

1945: Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 9.

1956: Prints, 1400-1800, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1956-1957, no. 31 (as "The Two Apprentices"), repro.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 139, repro.

1996: Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996, as.

1997: Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Frick Collection, New York, 1998-1999, as Two Peasants Wrestling by The Housebook Master.

1999: The Medieval Housebook: The Real and the Ideal, A Fifteenth-Century View of Life, The Frick Collection, New York, 1999.

Bibliography

1908: Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.

1967: Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 139.