Moresca Dancers Surrounding a Sausage Seller, c. 1490-1536
Daniel Hopferexpand_more
Etchingexpand_more
Gift of funds from the Ronald F. Kinney Foundationexpand_more 2014.123
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The Augsburg artist Daniel Hopfer was one of the first practitioners of the medium of etching. He etched armor before producing impressions of etchings on paper. In this entertaining print, he represents seven boorish men dancing around a goitered old woman who holds up a jug of beer and spit with seven sausages. The bells tied around the dancers’ wrists and ankles indicates they are taking part in a Morris dance—a Medieval courting dance—which Hopfer parodies through the participants’ grotesque appearance, drunken behavior, and exaggerated age.
Details
- Title
- Moresca Dancers Surrounding a Sausage Seller
- Artist Life
- c. 1470-1536
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2014.123
- Provenance
- [R.E. Lewis, San Francisco]. Sale, Stanford Treasure Market, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, California, March 28-30, 2014, to Bergquist; [Joel Bergquist, Stanford, California, 2014; sold to MIA]
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Bartsch 73; Hollstein 82; Eyssen 77
- Curator Approved
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