{"product_id":"albrecht-durer-the-offer-of-love-or-the-ill-assorted-couple-engraving-print","title":"Albrecht Dürer — The Offer of Love (or the Ill-Assorted Couple) | Engraving Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn a grassy bank beside a stand of slender trees, a bearded old man in a fur-trimmed tunic sits close against a young woman in a laced bodice and a round, patterned headdress, her smiling face turned up and to the left, his hands busy at his belt. At the right a saddled horse stands tethered to a tree, with a hat lying on the ground nearby. Behind the couple a walled town with towers and a sailing boat recede, and the painter's monogram is engraved at the bottom edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late fifteenth century, scenes of mismatched lovers were a popular subject for prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art notes that in one variation a young woman seduces an unwitting old man to steal his money, whereas in Dürer's version the man willingly reaches into his purse to pay for his companion's affection. This impression is the first of three states.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original: engraving, 1495–1496; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist of the Northern Renaissance, born in Nuremberg, the son of a goldsmith. He trained in the workshop of Michael Wolgemut and travelled twice to Italy, bringing Italian ideas of proportion and perspective north of the Alps. His woodcut series, above all the Apocalypse of 1498, and his engravings, among them Knight, Death and the Devil, Saint Jerome in His Study and Melencolia I, raised printmaking to the level of painting and circulated across Europe in his lifetime. He also made watercolours of plants and animals from close observation, painted portraits and altarpieces, and published treatises on measurement and human proportion. His prints are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the British Museum and the Albertina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach print is made to our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/archival-museum-standards\"\u003eArchival Museum Standards\u003c\/a\u003e: a 12-ink giclée, printed to order. Unframed prints are made on Hahnemühle German Etching, a 310gsm matte fine-art paper. Framed prints arrive in a handmade solid-wood frame with low-reflection glazing, ready to hang. 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