Lord and lady walking with figure of death hiding behind a tree, holding an hourglass, The Promenade after Dürer
Marcantonio Raimondi|Albrecht Dürer
ca. 1500–34
Medium
Engraving; only state
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 11/16 × 4 13/16 in. (19.5 × 12.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1927
Accession Number
27.59.5
Tags
SkeletonsMenWomenTreesHourglass
About the Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi|Albrecht Dürer · 1475–1534
Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480–1534), born near Bologna, Italy, emerged as one of the Renaissance's premier engravers, revolutionizing printmaking through his mastery of reproductive techniques. He trained in the workshop of the goldsmith, painter, and niellist Francesco Francia, whose influence is evident in his early engravings, such as the goldsmith-like shading in *Pyramus and Thisbe* (1505), h...