Young Couple Threatened by Death (The Promenade)

Art Institute of Chicago

Young Couple Threatened by Death (The Promenade)

Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-6cf5b58b91f0

Date
c. 1498
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Culture
Germany
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
4056

From the Art Institute of Chicago record

The foreboding, corpselike figure of Death with an hourglass appears in many Northern Renaissance prints; in this engraving, he peeks out from behind a tree, holding his hourglass aloft. Each image is a reminder that death strikes the young, the Christian, and the chivalric alike; no one outlasts or avoids death. There is an evident connection between death and sensuality in this image, underlined by the suggestively positioned and sized sword.

View at Art Institute of Chicago ↗

The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.eySrM4tv2iyLpCCk.Y10-mArmy0nN6GmKHFiufhwP8j0SAPQ3PuSckmBLDTQTDNOBrQ3xhncPbQZe1A2pR-TEufl1-pu8LXnO6QYOAEP0-CpCP669Z44U6rLeVsDYD5EPqONvOFuXgl2BED9b7a7Xgv_aJiOT3a8WH9tf1yl4BnmGCg2PQ9y7W8l81XAuNa0j7uczR65-Jm8rz188KQdYKh0FODvAcsNEJM-UWNkwZb6AAohiLXH5VhSO72AB0bmAWmafrXtmMMQST-C5b6j51OlrSCpZPn9Aw9wnSee at Art Institute of Chicago QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.Mtu_jzJ1va8gU-My.xWo1CvszfmwYpOL2eTQ3qdo3yB6pvJ-UCRJ_rucArxPnkcf5CAgcwU_cQ90KxlfjVBGgB3um7pUqzKYQYtgnawmLsk8jjVvu19QBMJDTm1MUYUbjtCbht6aP2ufSjaWFpMvk9H8GPgkIC0SrGsNHSC6TiUo6l65C-3D4ufzxDy9g6ybIX1fopnu8-7mGYoZhM9Z5otN1PiQishPiVEWL-I8w936oNQg_NT6WvszKBYF5WeRiUvYl7ORIuncPfqoXgzciFoV8IdgCS0paGA
Open this page
See at Art Institute of Chicago

Provenance & credit

As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.

Credit line
Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.

Linked open data

Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.

Object type
AAT300041273

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.