PORTRAIT OF WILLIBALD PIRCKHEIMER
Bottom right: a signature
Paul es de la houve ex an Palais
In the centre: a half-erased inscription
Bilibaldi pirkeymheri effigies aetatis suae anno LIII Vivitur ingenio caetera mortis erunt MDXXIV A.D. (Willibald Pirckheimer’s portrait at the age of 53. The life will dwell in the talent, all the rest is frail 1524 AD)
160х111 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
Watermark:
is unclear because the sheet is mounted on dense paper
Provenance:
State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-2484
Comments:
a mirror reflection of Dürer’s engraving, with a false Dürer’s monogram
