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

Portrait of a Man with a View of the Sint-Michielsabdij at Antwerp

1520
Silverpoint on prepared paper, 130 x 190 mm
Musée Condé, Chantilly

Dürer used the metalpoint technique, favoured by most fifteenth-century Netherlandish artists, in the sketchbook he kept with him on his journey to the Netherlands.




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