Peasant Couple at Market

1519

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 11.7 × 7.3 cm (4 5/8 × 2 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3542

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 89

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Pierre Mariette II [1634-1716], Paris (Lugt 1790), by 1683; (sale, C.G. Boerner, Liepzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 409); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 15.

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. 88.

Inscriptions

in plate, top center: 1519; in plate, bottom right, on stone: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in ink by a later hand: P. Mariette 1683; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 49 [upside down]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: L. Varcs [?] 175[3 ?] [erased] [last figure covered by old hinge]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.89.; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: h [underlined] 3109.; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 409

Markings

P. Mariette 1683 written in ink on verso, signature same as that in Lugt 1790, but different date.

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q18338478

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