Peasant Couple Dancing
1514
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- 11.8 × 7.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-496412
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 e…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Charlotte Trenkamp in memory of Henry Trenkamp Jr., 1993.190
Registry history
- 1514 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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