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DÜRER, Albrecht: Laughing Peasant Woman

🖼 Laughing Peasant Woman, 1505
Pen
390 × 270 cm
London, United Kingdom

Coarse features and weathered skin dominate this portrait, rendered with unflinching realism and fine engraving lines. Dürer elevates a peasant subject to artistic importance, challenging Renaissance ideals of beauty and demonstrating Northern Europe's growing interest in individual character studies.

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