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	Info
	The Suicide of Lucretia 1518 Oil on lime panel, 168 x 75 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich
	The Virgin Mary in Prayer 1518 Oil on linden panel, 53 x 43 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
	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
	St Anne with the Virgin and Child (detail) 1519 Oil and tempera on canvas, transferred from panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	St Anne with the Virgin and Child (detail) 1519 Oil and tempera on canvas, transferred from panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Jakob Fugger, the Wealthy 1518-20 Tempera on canvas, 69,4 x 53 cm Staatsgalerie, Augsburg
	Emperor Maximilian I 1519 Oil on lindenwood, 74 x 62 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
	Emperor Maximilian I 1519 Tempera on canvas, 83 x 65 cm Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
	Head of a Woman c. 1520 Tempera on canvas, 25,5 x 21,5 cm Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
	Portrait of Bernhard von Reesen 1521 Oil on oak panel, 45,4 x 31,5 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
	St Jerome 1521 Oil on panel, 60 x 48 cm Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon
	St Jerome (detail) 1521 Oil on panel Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon
	Portrait of a Man 1520 Distemper on canvas mounted on wood, 40 x 30 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	Portrait of a Man with Baret and Scroll 1521 Oil on oak, 50 x 36 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid