FREDERICK THE WISE, ELECTOR OF SAXONY
1524
With monogram (the letter D turned to the left) and date MDXXIIII
Inscription:
CHRISTO SACRUM ILLE Dei verbo magna pietate favebat Perpetua dignus posteritate coli D FRIDR DUCI SAXON S R IMP ARCHIM ELECTORI Albertus Durer Nur Faciebat BMFVV MDXXIII (Dedicated to Christ. He favoured the God's word with a great piousness, and is worthy of eternal memory in his posterity. [Portrait] of Frederick, Duke of Saxony, Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, made by Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg in 1523)
192×125 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
Between 1524 and 1528
First state, before retouching
Watermark:
a small jug
Provenance:
State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-2184
Comments:
one of the earliest impressions, rich, with small scratches in the text (М. 102, а)
