Peasant Couple Dancing
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
11.8 × 7.3 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Charlotte Trenkamp in memory of Henry Trenkamp Jr.
Accession Number
1993.190
Tags
male
About this artwork
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 Düre...