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DÜRER, Albrecht: A Young Girl of Cologne and Dürer’s Wife

🖼 A Young Girl of Cologne and Dürer’s Wife, 1520
Silverpoint
129 × 190 cm
Vienna, Austria

Delicate silverpoint renders two women in profile: a young Cologne girl and Dürer's wife, captured with intimate precision. This double portrait demonstrates Dürer's mastery of the technique and his keen psychological observation of female subjects during the Northern Renaissance.

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E. H. Gombrich
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