Coat of arms with a skull.

Drawing, pen and brown ink, 22 x 17 cm, tracing paper glued on wooden support, monogrammed and dated "AD 1503" (several sm. def. in paper support showing preparation layer with loss to image, vert. folds, two sm. worm holes).

Stuck under passe-partout, under black wooden frame with gilt inner border (lower right corner sl. damaged).

Drawing after a famous print by Albrecht Dürer; which faithfully copies the original engraving showing a woman wearing a bridal crown standing on the left. She is approached from behind by a hairy wild man. A large winged helmet on the right and a shield with a skull as coat of arms in the centre are reminders of mortality and fleeting beauty. The drawing was made by a German or French draughtsman. A 19th-c. inscription on the verso of the frame informs us that this is a gift to A.F. Gerval from his grandfather Seyler.
Ref. Meder 1932:98. - Bartsch VII:109.101.
Prov. A.F. Gerval.