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Drawn by: Hans Hoffmann

After: Albrecht Dürer
Title
drawing
Description
English: Blue Roller, after Dürer; still-life study of a dead bird hanging by its beak (?), head to one side, wings hanging limply at the sides of its body, legs loosely spread apart, a few tail feathers hanging to right
Brush drawing in bodycolour, on vellum
Date 1583-1584 (circa)
Medium vellum
Dimensions
Height: 281 millimetres
Width: 179 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
Gg,2.220
Notes

This is one of four recorded copies by Hoffmann of Dürer's 'Dead blue roller' of 1521 (Albertina, Vienna) all of which are very close, but show the same small differences from the original: a more evident thigh on the bird's right leg, a slightly more curved line of the left wing and a wider space between the third and fourth talons. One of the copies is signed by Hoffmann and dated 1583 (Cleveland, Ohio, see 'Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art' exh.cat by Diane de Grazia and Carter E. Foster, 2000, no. 62 ), when Dürer's original was still in Nuremberg in the Imhoff collection, and it is therefore likely that Hoffmann was commissioned by Willibald Imhoff’s son, Karl, to produce the copy, perhaps as a reminder of a favourite drawing. Hoffmann then used his copy to produce further versions of the famous sheet. The two other copies are in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, and a private collection in Paris (see F. Koreny, 'Albrecht Dürer und die Tier- und Pflanzenstudien der Renaissance' exh.cat. Vienna, Albertina, 1985, cat.no 11). For a close variant of the drawing, see 1890,0512.156. The bird is probably a specimen of Coracias garrulus.

Lit: J. Rowlands 'Drawings by German Artists and Artists from German- speaking regions of Europe in the Department of Prints and Dawings at the British Museum: the Fifteenth Century,and the Sixteenth Century by Artists born before 1530', London, BM Press,1993, no.269: Waagen, 'Treasures', i, p. 235; Hausmann, 'Naumann's Archiv', p. 35; Hausmann, p. 106, no. 6; BM Guide, 1928, p. 31; F. Winkler, 'Prussian Jahrbuch', liii, 1932, p. 81, n. I; Tietze, iii, p. 139, under no. A 419; Winkler, Dürer, p. 60, under no. 615; J. Rowlands, 'Dürer', p. 54, under no. 337; Strauss, ii, p. 612, under no. 1502/11 (copy, no. 1); Koreny, 'Tier- und Pflanzenstudien', p. 58, no. 12, repr.; G. Bartrum in BM 'Fake', pp. 123-5, no.128; G. Bartrum, 'Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy', exh.cat. BM 2002, no.227 (not exhibited); K. Sloan, 'A New World: England's first view of America', London, 2007, p. 170; E. Héran (ed.), 'Beauté Animale', exh.cat. Grand Palais Paris, 2012, cat.no.4, fig.11.
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