DÜRER, Albrecht
(b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)

St Anne with the Virgin and Child (detail)

1519
Oil and tempera on canvas, transferred from panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Some portrait sketches of Agnes Dürer at a young age exist. In later years, Dürer only painted her once in the form of St Anne, a work preceded by several preliminary studies.