Death and Maiden (1517). Oil, tempera on panel. 30 x 15. Death and the Maiden or Death and Lust is a painting executed in 1517 by the German artist Hans Baldung which is in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Baldung was a protégé of Albrecht Dürer and adopted much of Durer's style and motifs. The work depicts a popular theme that Baldung himself visited several times, that of the early death of a young woman, often with erotic overtones. In this version Death has seized hold of a voluptuous young woman's hair and is pointing down to a tomb in mock benediction. Above his head are written the words Hie must du yn or Here you must go. The distraught victim, fully aware of her fate, wrings her hands together, pleading for her life.