Portrait of a Young Man

1508 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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This small double-sided panel bears a portrait of a man on one side and a depiction of a girl making a garland on the reverse. The identity of the young man is not known. Rather than a portrait, the girl on the reverse side is a female type, symbolizing a lover or perspective bride.

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About the Artist

Hans Süss von Kulmbach

1480 – 1522

German painter, pupil of Jacopo de' Barbari and follower of Dürer. He worked in Nuremberg and probably for a time in Cracow, Poland. His works include the Tucher altarpiece designed by Dürer in St Sebald's church, Nuremberg, altarpieces in churches in Cracow, Adoration of the Magi, and portraits.

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