This is a Portrait Of A Man By Albrecht Dürer  Mezzotint Art Print produced by Doubleday Page and Company Gallery of Masterpieces collection in 1905.

Size of entire piece is approximately 20" Tall x 15" Wide and comes with a title page of similar size. The printed area is approximately 14" tall x 10.5" wide.

Mezzotint Art print shows edge & corner wear with some wear the borders. The Title page is on thinner paper and shows small tears along the edges and some wear.

From the Title Page:
It was the idea of Thausing, Dürer's well-known biographer, that this portrait may represent Hans Imhoff, the great Nürmberg banker. The picture is dated 1521, and is certainly Dürer's finest portrait. In July of that year the artist set forth from Brussels on his return home from the year's visit he had been paying to the Netherlands. Imhoff had been his banker, and the suggestion is that he repaid some overdraft he may have made by painting this picture on his arrival. The suggestion is ingenious, but there are two strong reasons against it. The picture does not very closely resemble an engraving known to be a portrait of Imhoff, and it has an appearance of having been painted in the Netherlands.The handling, indeed, is not Flemish but is Dürer's own, evidently the painting of a man who was an engraver at heart. The traces of the brush are like those of a burin, handled as only Dürer ever handled one. No reproduction of the picture in its present state can give a full idea of the delicacy and finish of the original work as it appeared when it left the master's studio. No portrait by him gives so complete a representation of a man, catching his expression at a moment of mental activity, and pursuing to the uttermost every visible detail of form. We must conclude that the picture was painted in the Low Countries, and so naturally found its way to Spain. The influence of the Flemish style is evident throughout it. Thus John van Eyck taught his followers to see a man, and thus to depict him. In some respects Dürer even bettered the instruction. There is a certain largeness and dignity of view here which is Dürer's own, whatever suggestions he may have taken from others. Perhaps we shall never be able to identify the subject. Assuredly he was a man of note and position, whose name we should recognise quickly enough if someone arose to tell it to us.

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