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Young Couple Threatened by Death (The Promenade)
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
about 1498
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 19 x 11.9 cm (7 1/2 x 4 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession Number97.1208
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (intaglio) 094; Meder 83 (1f-g/II)
Signed
Signed in plate, lower center: [Dürer's monogram]
Marks
No watermark; recto, lower left, in old ink: E.P. [Edward Peart; Lugt 891]; verso, in ink: H F Sewall/1852 [Lugt 5148]; collector's stamp in red ink: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; faded MFA Parker Collection stamp in purple ink (Lugt 1870), with old accession number in black ink: 360; various marks in graphite, including: 3 3 0; and 97.1208.
ProvenanceDr. Edward Peart (b. 1756 or 1758 - d. 1824), London and Butterwick;[?] April 12 and following days, his sale (though advertised as an anonymous sale), 1822, Christie's, London. Probably 1852, purchased by Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1897, sold by Sewall to the MFA [see note 1]. (Accession Date: April 13, 2017)
NOTES: [1] Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized and executed in 1897, one year after his death.
NOTES: [1] Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized and executed in 1897, one year after his death.