Galeriewerk Woermann Mappe 02 02

This print is a late 19th-century facsimile of a drawing by Albrecht Dürer, capturing the soft features and specific proportions of a young child. The delicate rendering focuses on the rounded forms of the forehead and cheeks, showing the artist's attention to physiognomic detail. Such studies were essential to Dürer's process of building a systematic understanding of the human figure.

Albrecht Dürer was a central figure in the Northern Renaissance who sought to bridge art and natural philosophy by discovering a mathematical canon of human proportions. This study reflects the Neoplatonic effort to find divine harmony and geometric order within the natural world, a pursuit Dürer documented extensively in his theoretical writings.