File:Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Ungleiches Paar (Hessisches Landesmuseum).jpg

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Summary

Lucas Cranach the Elder: Ill-Matched Couple: Peasant and Prostitute (

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Artist



Alternative names	Lucas Cranach
Description	-German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death	4 October 1472	16 October 1553
Location of birth/death	Kronach	Weimar
Work location	Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Authority file	: Q191748 VIAF: 49268177 ISNI: 0000000121319721 ULAN: 500115364 LCCN: n50020861 NLA: 35031951 WorldCat

Title

Ill-Matched Couple: Peasant and Prostitute

Object type

painting

Date

circa 1525-1530

Medium

oil and tempera on beech wood

Dimensions

height: 31.5 cm (12.4 in); width: 23 cm (9 in)

Collection

Hessian State Museum Darmstadt

	Native name	Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
	Location	Darmstadt, Germany
	Coordinates	49° 52′ 29.11″ N, 8° 39′ 12.73″ E
	Established	1820
	Website	www.hlmd.de
	Authority file	: Q452362 VIAF: 140312453 ISNI: 0000000404934732 ULAN: 500306290 LCCN: n50065348 NLA: 36345932 WorldCat

Accession number

GK793

Object history

purchase 1932

Inscriptions

bottom right:

serpent with elevated wings, facing left

Notes

FR (1978) Nr.: -

References

Cranach Digital Archive

Source/Photographer

Web Gallery of Art:

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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder

(b. 1472, Kronach, d. 1553, Weimar)

Ill-Matched Couple: Peasant and Prostitute 1525-30 Oil and tempera on red beechwood, 32 x 23 cm Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt

In this version of the Ill-Matched Couple it is not the difference in ages of the two protagonists which discredits the idea of an amorous liaison but the difference in their social status. The man is not much older than his partner, but he is a peasant and wears a coarse smock and a fur cap with brim. The girl, on the other hand, wears a courtly costume with puffed sleeves.

This panel is the only surviving painting by Cranach to treat the subject with such an unusual twist, and one that is rarely found in works by other artists.

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Author: CRANACH, Lucas the Elder Title: Ill-Matched Couple: Peasant and Prostitute Time-line: 1501-1550 School: German Form: painting

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