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Rustic Couple

Print
ca.1497 (engraved)
Artist/Maker
Durer (artist)
Place of origin
Nuremberg (engraved)

Engraving by Albrecht Dürer, 'Rustic Couple'; ca.1497, German. Inscribed with artist's monogram at bottom centre. A man and his wife turned to the left in mid-stride on a path, against a white background. They wear plain attire and the man's trousers are bound with cord. He has his arm flung up, gesticulating, as he seems to admonish his wife from a toothless mouth. She frowns, her eyes downcast.


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleRustic Couple (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving on paper
Paper
Printing Ink
Engraving
Brief description
The Peasant and his Wife by Albrecht Durer (1471-1528); engraving
Physical description
Engraving by Albrecht Dürer, 'Rustic Couple'; ca.1497, German. Inscribed with artist's monogram at bottom centre. A man and his wife turned to the left in mid-stride on a path, against a white background. They wear plain attire and the man's trousers are bound with cord. He has his arm flung up, gesticulating, as he seems to admonish his wife from a toothless mouth. She frowns, her eyes downcast.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.7cm
  • Width: 7.6cm
Style
Renaissance
Marks and inscriptions
'AD' (Artist's monogram inscribed at bottom centre)
Subjects depicted
Peasantry
Spouses
Bibliographic references
  • Strauss, Walter L., ed. The Illustrated Bartsch 10 (Commentary): Sixteenth Century German Artists, Albrecht Dürer. New York: Abaris Books, 1980. 328 p., ill. ISBN 089835000X. pp.185-187.
  • Heller, Joseph. Das Leben und die Werke Albrecht Dürer. Bamberg: 1827. Vols. 2 & 3 (vol. 1 was not published). 921.
  • Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog: Ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna, 1932. 86.
  • Dodgson, C. The Masters of Engraving and Etching: Albrecht Dürer, London and Boston, 1926. 19.
  • Tietze, Hans and Erika Tietze-Conrat. Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke Albrecht Dürers. Vol. 1, Augsburg 1928; vol.2, Basel and Leipzig 1937; vol.3, Basel and Leipzig, 1938. 109.
  • Panofsky, Erwin. The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer. Volume I, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955 (4th edn). Volume II, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945 (2nd edn). 190.
Other number
B.83 - Le Peintre-Graveur
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1458-1885

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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