7. Hans Sebald Beham
(1500-1550)

Peasant Couple Selling Eggs

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Beham, Peasant Couple

Peasant Couple Selling Eggs

Engraving, 1520, 52 x 39 mm., Bartsch 193, Pauli 195, ex collections: G. W. Brooke (Lugt 1138a) and Dr. Herweg (not in L.) Clear and detailed impression on laid paper, trimmed slightly unevenly along the plate mark (part of which is inky) and just barely into the left foot of the man at the base. The impression seems slightly stronger than that of the BM reproduced in TIB and without the scratch on the monogram panel. Beham’s peasant scenes were as much a part of the cultural and social legacy of Germany in the 16th century as any portrait of a reigning prince or documentation of an architectural monument. They were collected avidly by intellectuals of the time as well as by the peasants themselves, at least the wealthier ones, and they evoke for us today something of the life of 500 years ago.

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