Albrecht Dürer

The Temptation of the Idler (The Dream of the Doctor)

c. 1498

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

Art Institute of Chicago

Medium

Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

18.8 × 11.9 cm (7 7/16 × 4 11/16 in.)

Collection no.

1941.1045

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Albrecht Dürer. The Temptation of the Idler (The Dream of the Doctor), c. 1498. Inventory 1941.1045. Albrecht Dürer; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Clarence Buckingham Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/43233. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.