Wölfflin chapter 1 Linear and painterly
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Albrecht Durer (b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)
1504
Study for the figure of Eve
British Museum
The figure relates closely to a Study for the figure of Eve (1504) in the Ashmolean Museum.
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Heinrich Aldegrever (b. 1502, Paderborn, d. c.1555)
1535
Eve
Brown University
Engraving
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Rembrandt (b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)
1658
Woman Bathing Her Feet at a Brook
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Etching 6.2*8.1 cm
The Negress Lying Down 1658 (Metropolitan Museum, New York)
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Heinrich Aldegrever (b. 1502, Paderborn, d. c.1555)
c. 1540
Portrait of a man
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Coloured chalks on laid paper 27.0*18.4 cm
The Portrait of a Bearded Man with a Beret (Washington) may be related.
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Jan Lievens (b. 1607, Leiden, d. 1674, Amsterdam)
mid 17th century
Portrait of the poet Jan Vos
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
Drawing 32.2*25.3 cm
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Hans Holbein (the younger) (b. 1497, Augsburg, d. 1543, London)
1523
A lady of Basel
Kupferstichkabinett, Basel
Drawing 29*19.8 cm
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Hans Holbein (the younger) (b. 1497, Augsburg, d. 1543, London)
1528
Two views of a woman wearing an English hood
British Museum
15.9*11.0 cm
The details of this woman's costume and especially her head-dress are very similar to Holbein's Study for the portrait of Lady Guildford 1527 (Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel). The finished picture is in the St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri.
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Gabriel Metsu (b. 1629, Leiden, d. 1667, Amsterdam)
Figure of a woman
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
Pen 25.7*13.5 cm
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