The National Gallery's Dürer is right, says new Taschen volume

February 4 2026

Image of The National Gallery's Dürer is right, says new Taschen volume

Picture: Taschen / The National Gallery, London

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

A portrait in The National Gallery, which was featured in the gallery's 2024 German paintings catalogue as a copy of a lost original by Albrecht Dürer, has been upgraded to the artist in full in a new volume of the complete paintings published by Taschen (which was released back in November 2025). The lead author of the volume, Christof Metzger, chief curator of Albertina Vienna, has described the work 'Quite simply: it is of outstanding artistic and technical quality and bears no trace of being a copy'. Click on the link above to read the full story.

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