Martin Schongauer German, c. 1450-1491 Peasant Family Going to Market, c. 1470/1475 engraving National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection, 1943

Saturn, related works

A poor peasant wearing torn clothes, and his barefooted wife on the scrawny horse with a child clinging to her belt, carry their humble wares to market. This sympathetic portrayal shows Saturn's children prematurely aged by a life fraught with hardship.

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