Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg (The Small Cardinal)
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 1528
1519
Engraving on laid paper, ink wash
Before text on reverse; Meder I.a
Sheet: 5 15/16 × 4 in. (15.1 × 10.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Helena Mein Wade in memory of her husband, Alfred Byers Wade
PR.950.21.11
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, upper right: ALBERTVS. MI. DI. SA. SANC. / ROMANAE. ECCLAE. TI. SAN / CHRYSOGONI. PBR. CARDINA. / MAGVN. AC. MAGDE. ARCHI / EPS. ELECTOR. IMP. PRIMAS / ADMINI. HALBER. MARCHI. / BRANDENBVRGENSIS; inscribed, in plate, center left: AD [artist's monogram]; inscribed, in plate, lower center: SIC OCVLOS SIC ILLE GENAS SIC / ORA FEREBAT / ANNO ETATIS SVE XXIX / M D XIX [Translated text from the British Museum: Albert, by divine mercy the most Holy Roman Church's titular presbyter cardinal of St Chrysogonus, Archbishop of Mainz and Magdeburg, Primate Elector of the Empire, Administer of Halberstadt, Margrave of Brandenburg" Three lines Latin inscription above the portrait, reading in translation: "Thus were his eyes, his cheeks, his features at the age of 29, 1519"]
Course History
GERM 10.06, A Visual History of Germany, Heidi Denzel, Winter 2022
Exhibition History
Portraits at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 10-April 16, 1978.
Publication History
Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, p. 13, no. 1.
Provenance
Alfred Byers Wade (1874-1949) Collection, to his wife, Helena Mein Wade (1878-1966), New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949; given to present collection, 1950.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch (1803), Vol. VII: 110.102; Meder (1932): 100; Strauss (1973): 88
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