Peasants' Feast

1546/1547

Sebald Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

The image shows seven individuals gathered around a wooden table. The setting appears to be a vineyard with grape vines in the background. Each person is dressed in elaborate historical clothing. Some individuals are seated while others are standing. The group appears to be interacting around the table, with raised cups and gestures of speaking or toasting. Above them is a scroll with text. The drawing includes detailed lines and shading for texture and depth.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 5 x 7.2 cm (1 15/16 x 2 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1963.11.23

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 189, State i/iii

  • Series Title

    The Twelve Months

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1996

  • Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996, as The Peasant Banquet from the series The Peasant Festival.

Bibliography

1901

  • Pauli, Gustav. Hans Sebald Beham: ein kritisches Verzeichnis seiner Kupferstiche, Radierungen und Holzschnitte. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte_ 33. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1901: no. 184, i/iii.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Sebald Beham, Anne Röver-Kann, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2024: no. 189, i/iii.

Wikidata ID

Q65511991

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