# Portrait of Ulrich Varnbühler [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DÜRER, Albrecht]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Chalk and charcoal, 415 x 320 mm ## Commentary This is a preliminary drawing for the woodcut of the same year, which carries over the line work almost completely — not only the tight wavy parallel lines in the neck, but also the broad downward flow of the line over the shoulders \(truly characteristic of a freehand drawing\). Only the ear is more cartilaginous in the woodcut, and the background is composed of pure horizontal lines. ## Related artworks - [A Young Girl of Cologne and Dürer's Wife]() - [Abduction of a Woman]() - [Abduction of Proserpine on a Unicorn]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam \(detail\)]() - [Adam]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()