Der Painter Hans Burgkmair the Elder and his wife Anna, née Allerlay
1529 | Lukas Furtenagel
Neither subject looks in the convex mirror but rather directly at the viewer, to whom the warning of impending death equally applies, and which is expressed in the inscription on the mirror, “Know Thyself”. The inscription in the upper right of the picture: “That’s what we really looked like, but in the mirror nothing but that” suggests that both of them face the prospect of death calmly.
Neither subject looks in the convex mirror but rather directly at the viewer, to whom the warning of impending death equally applies, and which is expressed in the inscription on the mirror, “Know Thyself”. The inscription in the upper right of the picture: “That’s what we really looked like, but in the mirror nothing but that” suggests that both of them face the prospect of death calmly.
Artist:
Lukas Furtenagel (1505 - nach 1546 Augsburg) DNB
Depiction/Person:
Hans Burgkmayr (Burgkmair) (1473 Augsburg - 1531 Augsburg) DNB
Time:
1529
Object Name
Painting
Culture
German
Material/technology:
Limewood
Dimensions:
59,7 cm × 52 cm
Framed: 77,5 cm × 69 cm × 9 cm
Signed
Inscribed in the upper right corner: (L)AVX FVRTENAGEL (I)VNGER GEMALT
Inscribed
unter der Signatur rechts oben: (SOLL)CHE GESTALT VNSER BAIDER VVAS. IM SPIEGEL ABER NIX DAN DAS; auf einem Zettel die Inschrift: IOANN BURGKMAIR M(ALER) LVI IAR ALT ANN ALLERLAIIN GE(MAHE)L LII IAR ALT MDXXVII(II) MAI X.TAG; auf der Einfassung bzw. am Griff des Konvexspiegels: ERKEN DICH SELBS / O MORS / HOFNVNG DER VVELT
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 924
Provenance
1685 Prague; 1781 Pressburg; 1783 documented in the gallery