Portrait of a Young Man; (reverse) Girl Making a Garland  1508

Hans Süss von Kulmbach had been apprenticed to the Italian painter and printmaker Jacopo de’ Barbari, who worked at a number of German courts in the first decade of the sixteenth century. The latter’s influence must have continued even after Kulmbach joined Dürer’s Nuremberg studio in 1507, since this portrait of an unidentified young man, which dates from about 1508, is s...