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Portrait of an Old Man in a Cap

Maker

(engraver)
1570-1629

After
(artist)
1471-1528

Title

Date of Production

1597

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper
laid

Dimensions

Height: 35.95 cm
Width: 22.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3014

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Based on Dürer’s drawing in the Albertina (c. 1508) which was made in preparation for his Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin altarpiece (Frankfurt, 1508-9), Dürer’s original drawing of a pensive old man in a cap was a study for one of the apostles. This engraving is one of three heads after Dürer that Sadeler reproduced from the collection of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II. The plaque below the drawing does not follow the original model but acts as an additional tribute to Dürer in the custom of his portrait drawings, which Sadeler must have seen. These prints by Sadeler are among the first reproductive engravings after drawings to record a collection, a practice which later became common in the seventeenth century.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Print Room Display - Durer Prints, The Courtauld Gallery (Prints and Drawings Study Room), 29/10/2013-23/06/2014

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : within image & upper left : : AD [monogram] //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & centre : : ALBERTVS DVRER ALMANVS FECIT ANNO M D VIII / EGIDIVS SADELER SCALPSIT ANNO / M D X C VII //

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