Cleveland Museum of Art

The Offer of Love (or The Ill-Assorted Couple)

Albrecht Dürer

Date

1495–1496

Medium

engraving

Culture

Germany, late 15th-early 16th Century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

In the late 15th century, moralizing scenes of mismatched lovers were popular subjects for prints. In one variation of the theme, a young woman seduces an unwitting old man in order to steal his money. In Dürer’s version here, however, the male figure willingly reaches into his purse to pay for his younger companion’s affections.

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