Der Painter Hans Burgkmair and His Wife
1529, Artist: Lukas Furtenagel
Der Painter Hans Burgkmair and His Wife
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.
Object data
Object Name
Painting
Culture
German
Dated
1529
Artist
Lukas Furtenagel (1505 - nach 1546 Augsburg) - GND
Material
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
Image rights
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie
Inv. No.
Gemäldegalerie, 924
Provenance
1685 Prague; 1781 Pressburg; 1783 documented in the gallery
Depiction/Person
Hans Burgkmair d. Ä. (1473 Augsburg - 1531 Augsburg) - GND
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