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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1514 creation date earliest: 1514 creation date latest: 1514 current location: creditline: Gift of Charlotte Trenkamp in memory of Henry Trenkamp, Jr. copyright: --- culture: Germany, 16th century technique: engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Engraving type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Meder 88 --- CREATORS * Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 11.8 x 7.3 cm (4 5/8 x 2 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire opening date: 2014-06-22T00:00:00 Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 22-September 28, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "1993 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (1994): 143-218. page number: Reproduced: p. 166 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1993.190/1993.190_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1993.190/1993.190_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1993.190/1993.190_full.tif