lithograph, paper, 40 x 33 cm in light of the original passe - partout (60 x 45 cm); executed in the 19th century by the museum office "Albertina Facsymiles" in Vienna; Durer's signature reflected on the plate under an inscription personally written by Durer; unique print from the only unique edition of Durer's prints published at the end of the 19th century.
In the spring of 1512. Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I visited the Habsburgs in Nuremberg, where he met Albrecht Durer. MaximilianI became the artist's chief patron and appointed him a pension of 100 guilders a year. Albrecht Dürer worked on behalf of Emperor Maximilian I and painted several portraits of him, the most famous of which was created after the emperor's death in 1519, based on a drawing that Durer had made shortly before Maximilian's death. The drawing isin the collection of the Albertina Museum and a lithograph from that drawing is the subject of this auction.
The drawing is reproduced on pl .frwiki.wiki
