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BIOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
(wire-drawing mill); a view of the village of Kalkreut; and the “ Weiherhaus,”
near the Gleishammer, east of Nuremberg (Thausing, I, pp. 123-24, 2d ed.),
have been reproduced by Lippmann (Nos. 331, 4, 105, and 220) : two
of them (Nos. 4 and 220) in the colors of the originals. The “Weiherhaus”
was utilized by Diirer in the middle distance of “ The Virgin and Child with
the Monkey” (No. 13 of this catalogue). Ephrussi mentions furthermore a
view taken from the Trockensteg, in the Albertina, and a large view of a village
near Nuremberg, in the Bertini Collection, at Milan.
b DURER’S FATHER, Albert Durer the Elder.
Etching from the painting in the possession of the Duke of Northum-
berland, now at Sion House, London. The etching was made by
Wenzeslas Hollar, in the year 1644, when the painting was in the col-
lection of the Earl of Arundel. The inscription above reads: “ 1497.
Albrecht Thvrer, the elder, and old 70 years.” Old copies of this pic-
ture are preserved in the Staedel Institute, Frankfort, and in the gallery
(Pinakothek) at Munich. Of the latter there is a lithograph by Strixner.
There is another portrait of Diirer the Elder, by his son Albert, in the gallery
of the Uffizi, at Florence, which, according to Thausing (I, p. 47, 2d ed.), was
painted at the end of Diirer’s apprenticeship, and before he started on his wan-
derings as a journeyman painter (1490). Ephrussi (pp. 81, 82) describes also a
drawing in the British Museum as a portrait of Diirer the father, by the son,
and Springer (p. 171) refers to it as a study for the painting in Florence. Lipp-
mann, however, does not reproduce it, which shows that he rejects it. A me-
dallion portrait of Diirer the Elder, said to have been modeled by the son in
the year 1514, is now discredited. (Thausing, II, p. 51, 2d ed.)
c DURER’S MOTHER, Barbara Durer.
Facsimile of a drawing by Diirer, in the Print Cabinet at Berlin.
(Lippmann, No. 40.) The inscriptions may be translated as follows:
“ 1514. March 19. This is Albrecht Diirer’s mother, she was 63 years
old, and died in the year 1514, on Tuesday before Rogation-Day-Week
[May 16], at two o’clock towards night.” (See about the date of death,
under “Melancholy,” No. 70 of this catalogue.)
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(wire-drawing mill); a view of the village of Kalkreut; and the “ Weiherhaus,”
near the Gleishammer, east of Nuremberg (Thausing, I, pp. 123-24, 2d ed.),
have been reproduced by Lippmann (Nos. 331, 4, 105, and 220) : two
of them (Nos. 4 and 220) in the colors of the originals. The “Weiherhaus”
was utilized by Diirer in the middle distance of “ The Virgin and Child with
the Monkey” (No. 13 of this catalogue). Ephrussi mentions furthermore a
view taken from the Trockensteg, in the Albertina, and a large view of a village
near Nuremberg, in the Bertini Collection, at Milan.
b DURER’S FATHER, Albert Durer the Elder.
Etching from the painting in the possession of the Duke of Northum-
berland, now at Sion House, London. The etching was made by
Wenzeslas Hollar, in the year 1644, when the painting was in the col-
lection of the Earl of Arundel. The inscription above reads: “ 1497.
Albrecht Thvrer, the elder, and old 70 years.” Old copies of this pic-
ture are preserved in the Staedel Institute, Frankfort, and in the gallery
(Pinakothek) at Munich. Of the latter there is a lithograph by Strixner.
There is another portrait of Diirer the Elder, by his son Albert, in the gallery
of the Uffizi, at Florence, which, according to Thausing (I, p. 47, 2d ed.), was
painted at the end of Diirer’s apprenticeship, and before he started on his wan-
derings as a journeyman painter (1490). Ephrussi (pp. 81, 82) describes also a
drawing in the British Museum as a portrait of Diirer the father, by the son,
and Springer (p. 171) refers to it as a study for the painting in Florence. Lipp-
mann, however, does not reproduce it, which shows that he rejects it. A me-
dallion portrait of Diirer the Elder, said to have been modeled by the son in
the year 1514, is now discredited. (Thausing, II, p. 51, 2d ed.)
c DURER’S MOTHER, Barbara Durer.
Facsimile of a drawing by Diirer, in the Print Cabinet at Berlin.
(Lippmann, No. 40.) The inscriptions may be translated as follows:
“ 1514. March 19. This is Albrecht Diirer’s mother, she was 63 years
old, and died in the year 1514, on Tuesday before Rogation-Day-Week
[May 16], at two o’clock towards night.” (See about the date of death,
under “Melancholy,” No. 70 of this catalogue.)
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