New Images
  1. Anonymous Italian, Venus
  2. Appian, Bords du Ruisseau
  3. Beham, Ornament with a Palmette
  4. Benoit, A Grove of Trees
  5. Berman, Destruction Ancient City
  6. Bonasone, Sculptures of Persians
  7. Brissot de Warville, Parc à Moutons
  8. Brizio, Satyr Spying on a Nymph
  9. Brouet, Grand Saint-Ouen
  10. Buhot, Idée du Frontispice
  11. Cameron, Glen Strae
  12. Charlet, Une Reconnaissance
  13. Cochin, Hercule Gaulois
  14. Collaert, St. Maclovius (St. Malo)
  15. Coornhert, Battlefield in America
  16. Daubigny, L’Heritage de la Voiture
  17. Denon,Family Seated Near a Wall
  18. Dietterlin, Ornamented Fountain
  19. Dugas, La Pentecôte
  20. Duplessis-Bertaux, The Church
  21. Dürer, The Young Couple
  22. Fantin-Latour, Baigneuses
  23. Gillot, Livre de Portières
  24. Good, Portrait of a Lady
  25. Grasset, La Belle Jardinière
  26. Gropper, The Art Patron
  27. Hackaert, A la Cava
  28. Haid, Woman Lighting Her Pipe
  29. Higgins, Two Peasants Arguing
  30. Hollar, Woman of Antwerp
  31. Huybrechts, Ornament
  32. Israels, A Scheveningen
  33. Lalanne, Le Pont des Arts
  34. Lalanne, Passage de la Marmite
  35. Legros, La Pêche à la Truble
  36. Lepic, Le Président Arbod
  37. Levine, A Hand Holding a Cigar
  38. Nadelman, Reclining Female Nude
  39. Nolpe, Peasant Man and Woman
  40. Nolpe, Peasant Woman
  41. Nura, Seraphine Sews
  42. Ossenbeeck, The Merchant
  43. Ostade, Bust of a Peasant
  44. Piranesi, Ruins of the Neronian
  45. Paunzen, Pastorale, Allegro, No. 89
  46. Quaglio, Falconing Party
  47. Rados, Title Page
  48. Rados, Acquedotti e Rovine Antiche
  49. Rados, Carceri nella Tragedia
  50. Rops, Ma Grand’ Tante
  51. Salamanca, Stratonice Mithridatis
  52. Sampson, Paris Rooftops
  53. Schmutzer, Holländerin mit Kuh
  54. Taquoy, Horses and Hounds
  55. Viera, Coronis Pursued by Neptune
  56. Vliet, Hunchbacked Beggar
  57. Voyez, La Visite Inattendue
  58. Willman, The Four Seasons
  59. Wit, Onder of Over (Under or Over)

21. Albrecht Dürer
(1471-1528)
The Young Couple Reminded of Death

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Dürer, The Young Couple

The Young Couple Reminded of Death

Engraving, ca. 1498, Bartsch 94, Meder 83 id (of j)/ii, 194 x120 mm., ex collection: H.S. (Lugt 1372a), unidentified but found on prints by Dürer. A very good impression, with some plate tone, on laid paper with the watermark of a Large City Gate (Meder 261, Briquet 15948). According to Meder, “still strong, [with] wiping marks.” Though probably not a lifetime impression, it still must date from the first half of the sixteenth century. The paper is trimmed on or just barely within the plate mark, which itself is uneven on the left side. The image is one of the great vanitas prints, death standing behind the tree, holding an hourglass which is nearing the end of its run.