id:			157050
accession number:	1993.190
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.190
updated:		2022-03-12 10:01:01.367000

Peasant Couple Dancing, 1514. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528). Engraving; sheet: 11.8 x 7.3 cm (4 5/8 x 2 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Charlotte Trenkamp in memory of Henry Trenkamp, Jr. 1993.190

title:				Peasant Couple Dancing
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creation date:			1514
creation date earliest:		1514
creation date latest:		1514
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creditline:			Gift of Charlotte Trenkamp in memory of Henry Trenkamp, Jr.
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culture:	Germany, 16th century
technique:	engraving
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Engraving
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Meder 88

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CREATORS

* Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 11.8 x 7.3 cm (4 5/8 x 2 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire
	opening date:   2014-06-22T00:00:00
	<i>Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 22-September 28, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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Since the 1400s, scenes of country peasants celebrating and dancing were common in northern art; such images often pictured the rural classes as rowdy, uncivilized, and prone to indulgence. In contrast, Dürer presented the country folk displayed here as monumental figures in extraordinary detail, thus elevating the subject. Dürer’s depictions are commentaries on social order and demonstrate his interests in humanity as well as the study of human proportion. Even though the role of gender in Dürer’s peasant scenes is scarcely discussed, he clearly locates the woman as the focal point of this engraving. As her companion hollers and waves his arm in reckless abandon, the stout woman appears deliberate in her movements. She gazes assertively at the viewer while drawing attention to the keys, purse, and knife at her waist—symbols of authority and power.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"1993 Annual Report." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 6 (1994): 143-218.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 166
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457

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