Conformation and the Parade Ring · The First Stables
Knight, Death and the Devil
Albrecht Dürer, 1513 · engraving on laid paper
What it is
An armoured knight rides a proud horse through a wild, narrow gorge, followed by Death and a horned devil, in Albrecht Dürer’s engraving of 1513.
Why it matters
It is one of Dürer’s three master prints, made when he had almost stopped painting to concentrate on engraving.
What to notice
The horse steps forward in profile while the dog runs beneath, and a skull rests on a stump at the lower left.
Steady through every fear.
Provenance
- Maker
- Albrecht Dürer, 1513
- Era
- Before the Turf (1500–1700)
- Chapter
- The Yard Wakes
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Made
- 1513
- Source
- National Gallery of Art, Washington · via Wikimedia Commons · 1941.1.20
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01. Wikimedia Commons licence tag, read 2026-11-01: CC0. The maker died in 1528.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
More from the Stable Wall
Elsewhere in the family
- The Links — the other morning religion.
- Painted Lineage — the bloodline, beside the family line.
- Painted Earth — home ground as a period map.