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Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight
Albrecht Dürer
A frontal panel portrait of unprecedented ambition, on a lime support that has never been thinned.
- Artist
- Albrecht Dürer
- Date
- 1500
- Medium
- Oil on lime panel
- Dimensions
- 67.1 × 48.9 cm
- Location
- Alte Pinakothek, Munich
History
What the record shows
Dürer adopted the frontal pose reserved for images of Christ, an extraordinary claim for a painter of his time.
The panel survived the Second World War in a salt mine store, and remains one of the least-travelled works in Munich.
Provenance
Chain of ownership
- 01Nuremberg town hall collection, 1500s
- 02Acquired for the Bavarian electoral collections, 1805
- 03Alte Pinakothek, Munich
