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Albrecht Dürer

Lucas Kilian, Johann Rottenhammer, Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

1607

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Albrecht Dürer

Lucas Kilian, Johann Rottenhammer, Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

Lucas Kilian, Johann Rottenhammer, Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

1607

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 337 x 199 mm. (13 1/4 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2824
A portrait of Albrecht Dürer, engraved by Kilian, after Johann Rottenhammer's copy of Dürer's "Feast of the Rose Garlands" painting of 1506 which was commissioned by the German merchants of the Confraternity of the Rosary for the church of San Bartolommeo in Venice (the painting by Dürer is now in the National Gallery, Prague; Rottenhammer's copy has not survived).
See Giulia Bartrum, 'Dürer and his Legacy', exh. cat. (London: British Museum, 2002), cat. 16.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, across top of image, in plate "PICTORVM ET CHALCOGRAPHOR. GERMANIAE PRINCIPIS, ALBERTI DVRERI GENVINA EFFIGIES."; in image, center right, in plate "C.S.C.M. / PRIUIL."; in image, lower center in cartouche below portrait, in plate "ORNATISS. VIRIS; DOMINO CVSTODI, VITRICO. IAXOBO MILLERO, / SOCERO: CHARISS. SVIS. / Hanc Pictorum facile principis genuinam effigiem in amoris, et obseruantiae / argumentum offert Lucas Kilianus. an. 1608. / Ab excellentiss. pictore Iohanne Rotenhamero Boio ex originali ipsus Alb. Dur. depict." Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "9173"; lower left in graphite "9"; lower center in graphite "xx"; lower right in graphite "P:33. No.[indecipherable]."

Markings: CM: Claghorn WM: shield with entwined 4 and S

Artist

Lucas Kilian

German, 1579 - 1637
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Artist

Johann Rottenhammer

German, 1564-1625
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Artist

Albrecht Dürer

German, 1471-1528
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