Albrecht Dürer - “Willibald Pirckheimer” Measures 12” x 17” Acquired from a business whom purchased a museum that closed down. This specific piece is from a collection put together by Adam Bartsch in 1808 from “Le Peintre Graveur" volume 7
Willibald Pickheimer (5 December 1470 - 22
December 1530) was a German Renaissance lawyer, author and Renaissance humanist, a wealthy and prominent figure in Nuremberg in the 16th century, imperial counsellor and a member of the governing City Council for two periods. One of the most important cultural patrons of Germany in his own right, he was the closest friend of the artist Albrecht Dürer who made a number of portraits of him, and a close friend of the great humanist and theologian Erasmus.