In the years of 1518 and 1519, numerous painted and printed portraits were commissioned and created. Most official portraits of this period are a result of Dürer's involvement in the Imperial Diet in Augsburg in 1518 (e.g. the Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I).

In contrast to the public portraits commissioned by the upper classes and aristocracy, which were of a more official nature, Dürer used portraits of his close family for other purposes. His wife Agnes, for example, was his model for the painting of the Virgin and Child with St Anne.

In 1520, at the age of 49, Dürer set off on what was to be his last long journey, to the Netherlands. The country was also ruled by the Habsburgs and the area which Dürer visited was Flanders (present-day Belgium), where most of the artists were then based. He had met most of the great artists of the Netherlands and had seen much of their work. The most important painting he completed in Antwerp was a panel of St Jerome, modelled on a 93 year-old man he had sketched.

Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	The Suicide of Lucretia 1518 Oil on lime panel, 168 x 75 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich	863*2000 True Color 227 Kb
	The Virgin Mary in Prayer 1518 Oil on linden panel, 53 x 43 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin	1000*1208 True Color 245 Kb
	St Anne with the Virgin and Child 1519 Oil and tempera on canvas, transferred from panel, 60 x 50 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	1100*1322 True Color 162 Kb
	St Anne with the Virgin and Child (detail) 1519 Oil and tempera on canvas, transferred from panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	803*970 True Color 118 Kb
	St Anne with the Virgin and Child (detail) 1519 Oil and tempera on canvas, transferred from panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	819*1001 True Color 130 Kb
	Jakob Fugger, the Wealthy 1518-20 Tempera on canvas, 69,4 x 53 cm Staatsgalerie, Augsburg	770*1102 True Color 156 Kb
	Emperor Maximilian I 1519 Oil on lindenwood, 74 x 62 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna	848*1068 True Color 137 Kb
	Emperor Maximilian I 1519 Tempera on canvas, 83 x 65 cm Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg	809*1035 True Color 152 Kb
	Head of a Woman c. 1520 Tempera on canvas, 25,5 x 21,5 cm Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris	840*1001 True Color 127 Kb
	Portrait of Bernhard von Reesen 1521 Oil on oak panel, 45,4 x 31,5 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden	801*1157 True Color 92 Kb
	St Jerome 1521 Oil on panel, 60 x 48 cm Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon	807*1016 True Color 113 Kb
	St Jerome (detail) 1521 Oil on panel Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon	806*931 True Color 105 Kb
	Portrait of a Man 1520 Distemper on canvas mounted on wood, 40 x 30 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	827*1100 True Color 108 Kb
	Portrait of a Man with Baret and Scroll 1521 Oil on oak, 50 x 36 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid	750*1043 True Color 104 Kb