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This is a print of a battle scene in a forest, with men engaged in combat amidst a backdrop of dense trees. The men are a mix of armed and unarmed, some holding long swords, sticks, axes, or pitchforks. Some are lying on the ground. Some of the men are nude apart from small garments around their groins, while other men are wearing full outfits with tunics, jackets, and wide-brimmed hats. The background includes tall trees with heavy branches in front of a sky filled with thin, horizontal lines. In the bottom left and right corners of the paper, below the print, are small rectangles with text in them.
National Gallery of Art · Print
Battle of Naked Men and Peasants
Hans Lützelburger, after Master NH
- Date
- 1522
- Medium
- woodcut on laid paper
- Dimensions
- image: 15 × 29.6 cm (5 7/8 × 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 18.5 × 30 cm (7 5/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 2017.21.1
- Credit line
- Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund
- Time span
- 1501 to 1550
- Department
- CG-E
Provenance
(Antiquariat Franke, Lübeck, as part of an album of 16th and 17th century prints). (sale, Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 26 May 2016, no.5138, as by Nikolaus Hogenberg); (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2017 by NGA.
Inscription
lower left in image, on tablet: H.N. (in reverse); lower left in tablet: HANNS / LEVCZELLBVRGER / FVRMSCHNIDER / 1522; lower right in tablet: ABCDEFG / HIKLMNO / PQRSTVX / YZ
Watermarks
high crown
NGA object ID 208472. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.