Albrecht Dürer
Philipp Melanchthon
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Additional Description
Engraving on laid paper, watermark Small Jug (Meder 158, c. 1525). (1526). 17.5 x 12.9 cm (sheet).
Details
Bartsch 105; Meder 104 c (of f); Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum 101 c (of f).
Period
(1471 - Nuremberg - 1528)
Technique
Druckgrafik
Provenance
Karl Eduard von Liphart (1808-1891), Dorpat, Bonn and Florence, with the collector's stamp verso (Lugt 1687);Franz von Hagens (1817-1899), Dresden, with the collector's stamp verso (Lugt 1052a);Unidentified, collector's stamp initial 'MW' verso (not in Lugt).
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Description
An early, warmly printed Meder a impression, trimmed to the boarderline on two sides, with narrow margins at left and lower side. Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) was one of the most exceptional intellectuals of his time. Dürer depicts him as a simply dressed, ascetic intellectual with a high forehead and a dishevelled hairdo that bespeaks his genius. A window is reflected in his pupil – a trick that Dürer used several times in his engraved portraits and which was interpreted as an allusion to the eye as a mirror of the soul. – With tiny foxing spots; horizontal crease on the reverse. With a tiny, closed tear on the bottom and left edge. The paper slightly uneven in places along the right-hand edge, otherwise in good condition.