Standards
- van Meckenem, Ecce Homo
- Dürer, Saint Jerome
- Dürer, The Little Courier
- Dürer, The Satyr Family
- Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids
- Altdorfer, The Resurrection
- Beham, Peasant Couple
- Beham or Dürer, Bookplate
- Pencz, The Life of Christ
- Davent, Musicians
- Lautensack, Landscape
- Matham, The Planets
- Callot, Balli di Sfessania
- Callot, La Chasse au Cerf
- Rembrandt, Clement de Jonghe
- Rembrandt, The Goldsmith
- Della Bella, The Five Deaths
- Ostade, The Fiddler
- Both, The Five Senses
- Nanteuil, Hardouin de Beaumont
- Visscher, A Mouse in a Mouse Trap
- Masson, Guilllaume de Brisacier
- Piranesi, A View of the Temple
- Watson, Mrs. Hale as Euphrosyne
- Moreau, Les Petits Parains
- Janinet, Le Sommeil d’Arianne
- Blake, And My Servant Job
- Unknown Engraver, Frederick
- Gericault, Horses Going to a Fair
- Jacque, Les Musiciens
- Haden, A By-Road in Tipperary
- Meryon, Saint-Etienne-du-Mont
- Bresdin, La Sainte Famille
- Whistler, Battersea Dawn
- Whistler, Limehouse
- Fantin-Latour, Manfred and Astarte
- Legros, Le Grand Canal
- Buhot, La Place des Martyrs
- Forain, Le Calvaire (2e planche)
- Pennell, In the Mist of the Morning
- Hassam, The Old Mulford House
- Zorn, "Oxenstierna"
- Toulouse-Lautrec, La Modiste
- Cameron, The Palace
- Sloan, Anshutz on Anatomy
- Bone, The Trevi Fountain, Rome
- Knight, At the Footlights
- McBey, Palestine: Blue Bonnets
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7. Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550) Peasant Couple Selling Eggs |
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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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