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Portrait of Jakob Muffel

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Year
  
1526

Artist
  
Albrecht Dürer

Genre
  
Portrait

Location
  
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Created
  
1526

Media
  
Paint, Oil paint, Canvas

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Type
  
Oil on panel transferred to canvas

Dimensions
  
48 cm × 36 cm (19 in × 14 in)

Periods
  
Northern Renaissance, Renaissance, German Renaissance

Albrecht Dürer artwork
  
Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher, Portrait of Oswolt Krel, Portrait of Elector Frederick, Jabach Altarpiece

The Portrait of Jakob Muffel is a painting by German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer, signed and dated from 1526, now housed in the Gemäldegalerie of Berlin, Germany.

The work was executed in Nuremberg, the same year in which the German artist portrayed Johann Kleberger and Hieronymus Holzschuher. Jakob Muffel was burgmaster of the city in the year in which Dürer had donated it his four panels of The Four Apostles and the two paintings are perhaps related to each other.

The panel is the same size as the portrait of Holzschuher and it has thus been speculated that they may have been commissioned for an official celebration and exhibited at the city's town hall

References

Portrait of Jakob Muffel Wikipedia