Drawing
Dead Blue Roller
Hans Hoffmann (German, 1545/50–1591/92); after Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528). 1583. watercolor and gouache with touches of gold. Explore the catalogue record, image rights and documented connections from The Cleveland Museum of Art.
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- A celebrated bird, painted again.Cleveland identifies Hoffmann’s 1583 drawing as a copy after Dürer. ALBERTINA dates the original to around 1500 and treats its “1512” inscription as a later record, not a secure creation date.
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- A celebrated bird, painted again.Documented copy · What does a copy ask us to notice? (The copy relationship is documented, but the interval cannot be stated as exactly seventy-one years. Dürer’s original is linked as a document here; no newly cleared reproduction or pixel comparison is supplied.)
- Follow a bird.An Artologium visual comparison. These works are not presented as a historical chain.
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- Birdmotif · Artologium visual observation · Source ↗
- Single figurerepeat structure · Artologium visual observation · Source ↗
- Papermaterial · Institution record · Source ↗
- Brush drawing on papertechnique · Institution record · Source ↗
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Hans Hoffmann (German, 1545/50–1591/92); after Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) across 1 collection
Each museum’s exact creator wording is preserved on its record. Reconciled maker links group works attributed directly to Hans Hoffmann (German, 1545/50–1591/92); after Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) while keeping workshop, studio, or “after” attributions distinct.
Workshop, studio, or “after” attributions (kept separate)
- "Alberti Dvreri pictoris et architecti praestantissimi De vrbibvs..."Recorded as: Albrecht Dürer · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Melencolia IRecorded as: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Related Afterlives investigations involving Hans Hoffmann (German, 1545/50–1591/92); after Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
- An animal made of reports.The British Museum states that Dürer did not see the animal and proposes a newsletter account from Lisbon as a likely source for his drawing.
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DrawingObject type
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Drawing
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GoldMaterial
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The Cleveland Museum of Art supplies “watercolor and gouache with touches of gold; [object Object]” in its medium/materials field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.
watercolor and gouache with touches of gold; [object Object]
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Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
WatercolourTechnique
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The Cleveland Museum of Art supplies “watercolor and gouache with touches of gold” in its medium/techniques field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.
watercolor and gouache with touches of gold
Catalogue: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
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