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Knight, Death, and the Devil

Albrecht Dürer1513

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

A knight in armor, and bearing arms, rides horseback, facing left, in profile. Death rides beside him, showing him an hourglass. A devil follows, his claws extended toward the knight. Rocky landscape in background. A dog and a lizard in foreground. At lower left, monogram of Dürer, and date of 1513 on tablet resting against a stone on which a skull is placed.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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