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CATALOGUE OF DURER’S ENGRAVINGS,
who painted for him, probably, the Dresden altar-piece (Thausing, I, pp. 168-
170), one of the first of his more important works, as well as other later pic-
tures. The inscription under the portrait reads as follows: “ Sacred to Christ.
He favored'the word of God with great piety, worthy to be reverenced forever
by posterity. For the Lord Frederic, duke of Saxony, arch-marshal, elector of
the holy Roman empire, Albert Diirer of Nuremberg made this. B. M. F. V.
V.” Again Diirer has thought it necessary to indicate the reflections of the
windows in the eyes.
A silver-point drawing in the collection of M. A. Armand, of Paris, is men-
tioned by Ephrussi (p. 332).
100 WILIBALD PIRKHEMER — B 106; H 1076; R 256; M 100.
— Monogram; dated MDXXIV.
a. Good impression. Soft black ink, clean wiped.
b. Impression in a soft warmish ink, with considerable tinting in the
close work, very perceptible in the jerkin which is seen in the opening of
the fur collar, where it produces the effect of a wash of India ink.
c. Copy. Heller, No. 1079.
d. Copy. Heller, No. 1080, the date, which is wanting in this copy,
added in ink.
The two proofs exhibited show that there are clean wiped and tinted impressions.
Those in Paris, London, Dresden, and Berlin are clean wiped, varying, however,
in the color of the ink used, from pure black (Berlin) to rather warmish
(Dresden). The impression in the Gray Collection, Boston, is also absolutely
clean wiped, black ink.
According to Heller and to Passavant, there are impressions from the re-
touched plate.
Wilibald Pirkheimer, the celebrated patrician, humanist, and councilor of
Nuremberg, Diirer’s life-long and most intimate friend, to whom the letters from
Venice were addressed, was born December 5,1470, and died December 22,1530.
The inscription under his portrait, which, according to Thausing (II, p. 244),
Pirkheimer himself dictated to Diirer, may be rendered as follows: “ The mind
endures; the rest is Death’s.” As usual, the artist could not withstand the
temptation to show the reflections of the windows in the eyes.
Lippmann (No. 142) reproduces a drawing in the Blasius Collection, at
Breslau, and Ephrussi mentions another, dated, however, 1503, in the Du-
mesnil Collection, both in profile to left.
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who painted for him, probably, the Dresden altar-piece (Thausing, I, pp. 168-
170), one of the first of his more important works, as well as other later pic-
tures. The inscription under the portrait reads as follows: “ Sacred to Christ.
He favored'the word of God with great piety, worthy to be reverenced forever
by posterity. For the Lord Frederic, duke of Saxony, arch-marshal, elector of
the holy Roman empire, Albert Diirer of Nuremberg made this. B. M. F. V.
V.” Again Diirer has thought it necessary to indicate the reflections of the
windows in the eyes.
A silver-point drawing in the collection of M. A. Armand, of Paris, is men-
tioned by Ephrussi (p. 332).
100 WILIBALD PIRKHEMER — B 106; H 1076; R 256; M 100.
— Monogram; dated MDXXIV.
a. Good impression. Soft black ink, clean wiped.
b. Impression in a soft warmish ink, with considerable tinting in the
close work, very perceptible in the jerkin which is seen in the opening of
the fur collar, where it produces the effect of a wash of India ink.
c. Copy. Heller, No. 1079.
d. Copy. Heller, No. 1080, the date, which is wanting in this copy,
added in ink.
The two proofs exhibited show that there are clean wiped and tinted impressions.
Those in Paris, London, Dresden, and Berlin are clean wiped, varying, however,
in the color of the ink used, from pure black (Berlin) to rather warmish
(Dresden). The impression in the Gray Collection, Boston, is also absolutely
clean wiped, black ink.
According to Heller and to Passavant, there are impressions from the re-
touched plate.
Wilibald Pirkheimer, the celebrated patrician, humanist, and councilor of
Nuremberg, Diirer’s life-long and most intimate friend, to whom the letters from
Venice were addressed, was born December 5,1470, and died December 22,1530.
The inscription under his portrait, which, according to Thausing (II, p. 244),
Pirkheimer himself dictated to Diirer, may be rendered as follows: “ The mind
endures; the rest is Death’s.” As usual, the artist could not withstand the
temptation to show the reflections of the windows in the eyes.
Lippmann (No. 142) reproduces a drawing in the Blasius Collection, at
Breslau, and Ephrussi mentions another, dated, however, 1503, in the Du-
mesnil Collection, both in profile to left.
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