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Woodcut of four horsemen riding through clouds, with an angel above and a skeleton on a pale horse trampling people below.

The Four Horsemen, from The Apocalypse

A black-and-white woodcut showing four riders charging across a cloud-filled sky, with an angel above and a skeletal rider on a pale horse trampling figures below. Dense hatching defines the smoke, clouds, and crowded foreground.

Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Date
1498
Medium
Woodcut
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
2798 × 3801 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1498).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919

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