Death and the Lansquenet

Albrecht Dürer

National Gallery of Art

This is a drawing showing a skeletal figure and a man with a halberd. The illustration features a skeletal figure holding an hourglass, interacting with an armored man carrying a halberd. The background includes a simple architectural element like a wall or a fence. The scene is enclosed within a rectangular frame on a page with text above and below the image. The style of the drawing resembles early 16th-century woodcuts. The text on the page is written in Gothic script.