'Self-portrait in a Fur Coat, aged 28' (after Dürer)
German School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1721
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
660 x 495 mm (26 x 19 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 851994
Summary
Oil painting on panel, 'Self-portrait in a Fur Coat, aged 28' (after Dürer), German School, 17th/early 18th century. Bears monogram upper left and date: 1500/AD [pun on Anno Domini as well as the orginal artit's initials] and inscribed upper right: Albertus Durirus Noricus / impsum me propriis sic effin / XI coloribus, ætatis / meæ XXVIII. [I' Albrect Durer of Nuremburg painted myself thus, with undying colour, at the age of twenty-eight years]. A copy of the half-length self-portrait derived from Albrecht Dürer's well-known picture in a fur-collard Robe, once on public display in the Great Hall of Nuremberg's Town Hall during the orginal artist's lifetime and now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. He is facing, gazing at the spectator, dark long hair, dressed in black and brown gown with a cur collar, his right hand holding the gown together at this breast, against dark background.
Provenance
Frederick Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol (in his London house by 1721); purchased by the National Trust at Sotheby's sale of the contents of The East Wing, Ickworth, Suffolk, 11-12 June 1996, lot 494
Makers and roles
German School, artist manner of Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg 1471 – Nuremberg 1528), artist