Peasant Couple Dancing, 1514

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 11.6 x 7.3 cm (4 9/16 x 2 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 88

Accession Number

1943.3.3529

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, top center: 1514 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, upper left, in graphite by a later hand: B90; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: M57; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: P2.; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: → [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B 90.; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 68; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: S [?] 4. [erased]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 33; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B-6553 [upside down]

Provenance

Marsden Jasael Perry [1850-1935], Providence, RI (Lugt 1880); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Perry, Marsden J.
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

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

Bibliography

1932: Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 77.