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Portrait of a Peasant Woman
Artist: Albrecht Durer (1471 - 1528)
Location: British Museum
Date: 1505
Materials: pen & brown ink & brown wash
Dimensions: 41.6 x 28.1cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £2,000 (Total: £5,000)
Vendor: Mr Houthaker
Review number: 748 (1930)
Provenance:
Marquis de Lagoy; Woodburn; Henry Danby Seymour 1820-77; A Seymour; Mrs Seymour and Miss JM Seymour who sold it at Sothebys on 26th April, 1927 to a Dutch owner. 1928 Mr H E Ten Cate.
Description:
This drawing portrays a laughing peasant woman from Windisch Mark, the archaic name of the area around Gurk in southern Austria. Widely regarded as among the artist's greatest portrait drawings, it was evidently already much admired in the sixteenth century. It isn't hard to see why. Given the fleeting nature of the peasant woman's expression and the meticulous execution of the drawing, Dürer must have had to recall her mirthful grin from memory.
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