Name: The Promenade
Brand: ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Price: 4200.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
The Promenade
engraving, circa 1498, on laid paper, watermark Posthorn (similar to Meder 185), a good but later impression, probably Meder's second, final state, with thread margins or trimmed just inside the platemark, backed along the sheet edges, generally in good condition
Sheet 195 x 122 mm.

Provenance:
P. Gervaise (died 1860), Paris (Lugt 1078), his inscription with the date 1860 verso.
Probably a duplicate of the Cabinet des Arts Graphique, Geneva (see Lugt 1073a), stamped CdE GENEVE/ DOUBLET verso (not in Lugt).

References:
Bartsch, Hollstein 94;
Meder 83;
Schoch, Mende, Scherbaum 19.

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Lot Essay

Dürer's prints are replete with symbols. The vigorous, quick-growing plant at the left represents lust and desire, as does the sword, which Dürer places rather unambiguously between the young man's legs. The gallant is walking with his beloved - a married woman - in the countryside. Both are oblivious to Death, who lurks behind a tree in the background, holding an hourglass above his head. This is a modern, moralized version of the early 15th century theme of the Garden of Love, a memento mori and a warning against adultery. However, the moralizing tone is tinged with sadness that their love and beauty will not last.