Death and the Lansquenet

1510

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

This is a drawing showing a skeletal figure and a man with a halberd. The illustration features a skeletal figure holding an hourglass, interacting with an armored man carrying a halberd. The background includes a simple architectural element like a wall or a fence. The scene is enclosed within a rectangular frame on a page with text above and below the image. The style of the drawing resembles early 16th-century woodcuts. The text on the page is written in Gothic script.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut and letterpress text on two sheets of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    block: 12.2 × 8.5 cm (4 13/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
    sheet (with image and letterpress text): 20.8 × 15.1 cm (8 3/16 × 5 15/16 in.)
    sheet (with only letterpress text): 20.3 × 15.1 cm (8 × 5 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1948.11.61

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 239

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Hamburger Künstverein, Hamburg (Lugt 1236, blind stamp). (William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1955

  • Drawings and Prints by Albrecht Dürer, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1955.

1975

  • Images of Love and Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, 1975-1976, no. 37, repro.

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. 2: no. 149.

Watermarks

imperial orb (Meder 56), on sheet with image

Wikidata ID

Q18339649

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