Promenade

c. 1497

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

This print depicts two people, a man and a woman, standing closely side by side. The man is positioned on the left with his body facing us and his head slightly tilted towards the woman, his gaze directed at her face. He has curly hair under a cap adorned with a long feather. The man wears a cloak or cape over a tunic and thin breeches, with a sword hanging from a belt. The woman is on the right, her body facing the man and her face in profile looking at him. She has a high forehead and a prominent chin, and she wears her hair in an updo under an ornate headdress. She wears a long gown with puffed sleeves and detailed draping. Her hands are crossed in front of her waist, resting on her draped skirts. The couple is walking along a dirt path, with a tall plant on the left and a tree to the right. Behind the tree is a skeleton draped in cloth that looks towards the couple, holding an hourglass on its head. In the background there are rolling hills dotted with some trees and small buildings under the empty sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.4 × 12.2 cm (7 5/8 × 4 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.1 × 13 cm (7 15/16 × 5 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3458

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 83, state i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d) at the Print Club of Philadelphia, 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 63.

1953

  • Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.

1955

  • Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.

1962

  • Installation during Fine Art Festival, American River College, Sacramento, CA, 1962, no cat.

1963

  • Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, 1963.

1965

  • Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 59.

1970

  • Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 8B.

1971

  • Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 50.

1973

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 40.

Bibliography

1932

  • Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 19

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 90; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B. 99; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: C 12810; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.94; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.22330

Watermarks

crowned city arms (Meder 46, 47, or 48)

Wikidata ID

Q18338505

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