Peasant Family Going to Market, ca. 1470

Blatt: 154 x 161 mm

Physical Description: Engraving

Inventory Number: 33773

Object Number: 33773 D

Acquisition: Ancient holdings; acquired before 1861

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

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About the Work

It seems, a farmer’s family is on its way to the town market with all kinds of produce, like eggs and poultry. Their village in the background on the right, with its church and draw well, is certainly modelled on reality. Its surroundings look friendly and fertile. In contrast, the landscape the family has to walk through is rough and barren. The craggy rocks in the middle ground seem to have sinister faces sprung from imagination. The engraving’s meaning to contemporary audiences is now unclear.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Peasant Family Going to Market

Artist

Martin Schongauer

Period Produced

15th century

Object Type

art print

Physical Description: Engraving

Material

Vergé paper

Technique

copperplate engraving

Geographic Reference

German

Label at the Time of Manufacture: Monogrammiert in der Platte unten mittig: M+S [durch Beschnitt nur noch die obersten Spitzen erhalten]

Captions Added Later: Verso bezeichnet (mit Bleistift): N 88
Verso Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

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