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Their recorded places of work include Nuremberg; Venice; Basel; Strasbourg; Colmar; Frankfurt; Mainz; Cologne; Innsbruck; Bologna; Milan; Florence; Arnemuiden; Baarle-Nassau; Bergen op Zoom; Goes; Heerewaarden; Middelburg; Nijmegen; Oisterwijk; Sittard; Stokkum; Tilburg; Veere; Zaltbommel; Zierikzee; Antwerp; Mechelen; Rome; Lutherstadt Wittenberg.","kind":"person","birthDate":"1471","deathDate":"1528","activeDates":null,"nationality":"Duchy of Bavaria","birthPlace":"Nuremberg","deathPlace":"Nuremberg","attributionNote":null,"portrait":{"imagePath":"/print-assets/1d33565faa8ed35616d2a2c3805d233e3c02c3f93faeb101eb472923d766a6ec-preview.jpg","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%BCrer_Alte_Pinakothek.jpg","portraitCreator":"Albrecht Dürer","licenseName":"Public domain","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/","depictionNote":"Artist portrait"},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata: Albrecht Dürer","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5580"}]},"artistUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive?artist=Albrecht%20D%C3%BCrer","medium":"Watercolour and bodycolour","dimensions":"Unknown","location":null,"period":"Northern Renaissance","culture":"German","canonicalUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive/young-hare-albrecht-durer-1502","imageUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/print-assets/9d78e3e7a17386165627411f902833039e91836cf723a2d644951f82a5aefeb6-preview.jpg","highestResolutionImageUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/print-assets/9d78e3e7a17386165627411f902833039e91836cf723a2d644951f82a5aefeb6.png","imageTitle":"Young Hare by Albrecht Dürer (1502) | High-resolution image","imageRights":null,"publishedUtc":"2026-10-16T22:17:12.8544257+00:00","summary":"A close look at Dürer's watercolour study of a hare, signed and dated 1502, and what its careful rendering of fur, whiskers and shadow reveal about observation as a subject.","text":"This is Young Hare, a painting attributed to Albrecht Dürer and dated 1502.\n\nIt shows a single hare crouching low, its body compact and its face turned toward the lower right.\n\nThe hare's dark glossy eye and nose sit close to the edge of the sheet, and long whiskers are drawn one by one, projecting into empty paper.\n\nAbove the body rise two tall ears, one tilted left and one upright, their interiors shaded dark and edged with fine hair.\n\nThe forelegs stretch out across the paper, with visible toes and claws.\n\nBeneath them sits a soft cast shadow that anchors the animal to the sheet, so the hare reads as resting on a surface rather than floating.\n\nThe crouching body and rounded haunch are built from thousands of individual brush hairs in brown, grey and pale ochre.\n\nThe result is not a flat coat of colour but a surface that mimics the direction and density of real fur.\n\nDürer's large AD monogram and the date 1502 are written above the hare at the base of the sheet.\n\nThat mark identifies the work as his and places it in the early sixteenth century, in the Northern Renaissance.\n\nWhat makes the painting unusual is that nothing happens. There is no landscape, no narrative, and no religious subject.\n\nThe hare alone occupies the paper, and the empty ground around it turns close looking itself into the subject of the image.\n\nThe whiskers that push past the body into blank paper, and the shadow that ties the feet to the sheet, both keep the hare specific and present.\n\nWhat the painting records is the act of paying attention, one hair and one claw at a time.","passages":[{"id":"passage-1","role":"hook","evidence":"documented","text":"This is Young Hare, a painting attributed to Albrecht Dürer and dated 1502.\n\nIt shows a single hare crouching low, its body compact and its face turned toward the lower right.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-2","role":"looking","evidence":"observation","text":"The hare's dark glossy eye and nose sit close to the edge of the sheet, and long whiskers are drawn one by one, projecting into empty paper.\n\nAbove the body rise two tall ears, one tilted left and one upright, their interiors shaded dark and edged with fine hair.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-3","role":"looking","evidence":"observation","text":"The forelegs stretch out across the paper, with visible toes and claws.\n\nBeneath them sits a soft cast shadow that anchors the animal to the sheet, so the hare reads as resting on a surface rather than floating.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-4","role":"looking","evidence":"observation","text":"The crouching body and rounded haunch are built from thousands of individual brush hairs in brown, grey and pale ochre.\n\nThe result is not a flat coat of colour but a surface that mimics the direction and density of real fur.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-5","role":"context","evidence":"documented","text":"Dürer's large AD monogram and the date 1502 are written above the hare at the base of the sheet.\n\nThat mark identifies the work as his and places it in the early sixteenth century, in the Northern Renaissance.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-6","role":"turn","evidence":"interpretation","text":"What makes the painting unusual is that nothing happens. There is no landscape, no narrative, and no religious subject.\n\nThe hare alone occupies the paper, and the empty ground around it turns close looking itself into the subject of the image.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-7","role":"closing","evidence":"interpretation","text":"The whiskers that push past the body into blank paper, and the shadow that ties the feet to the sheet, both keep the hare specific and present.\n\nWhat the painting records is the act of paying attention, one hair and one claw at a time.","sourceIds":["source-1"]}],"sources":[{"id":"source-1","title":"Wikimedia Commons: Young Hare","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_Hare,_by_Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_(2).jpg","publisher":"Wikimedia Commons","sourceType":"secondary","annotation":"Wikimedia Commons file page for Young Hare, by Albrecht Dürer. The uploaded file is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by Qwertzu111111 (not the artist).","accessStatus":"open_access","consultationStatus":"partially_consulted","relevance":"artwork"},{"id":"book-ol22144958m","title":"Albrecht Dürer: watercolours and drawings","url":"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22144958M","publisher":"Taschen; TASCHEN","sourceType":"book","authors":["Albrecht Dürer"],"publicationYear":1994,"isbn":"3822885754","annotation":"Recorded subjects include Durer's watercolor painting, prints, themes and motives, conservation and restoration. Young Hare is a Durer watercolor study of an animal, so a catalogue with watercolor and thematic subject headings is the strongest object-related match among the candidates.","consultationStatus":"not_yet_consulted"}],"history":"This is Young Hare, a painting attributed to Albrecht Dürer and dated 1502.\n\nIt shows a single hare crouching low, its body compact and its face turned toward the lower right.\n\nThe hare's dark glossy eye and nose sit close to the edge of the sheet, and long whiskers are drawn one by one, projecting into empty paper.\n\nAbove the body rise two tall ears, one tilted left and one upright, their interiors shaded dark and edged with fine hair.\n\nThe forelegs stretch out across the paper, with visible toes and claws.\n\nBeneath them sits a soft cast shadow that anchors the animal to the sheet, so the hare reads as resting on a surface rather than floating.\n\nThe crouching body and rounded haunch are built from thousands of individual brush hairs in brown, grey and pale ochre.\n\nThe result is not a flat coat of colour but a surface that mimics the direction and density of real fur.\n\nDürer's large AD monogram and the date 1502 are written above the hare at the base of the sheet.\n\nThat mark identifies the work as his and places it in the early sixteenth century, in the Northern Renaissance.\n\nWhat makes the painting unusual is that nothing happens. There is no landscape, no narrative, and no religious subject.\n\nThe hare alone occupies the paper, and the empty ground around it turns close looking itself into the subject of the image.\n\nThe whiskers that push past the body into blank paper, and the shadow that ties the feet to the sheet, both keep the hare specific and present.\n\nWhat the painting records is the act of paying attention, one hair and one claw at a time.","sections":[],"facts":[],"referenceSections":[{"id":"identity","title":"Identity and creation","entries":[{"text":"The painting is titled Young Hare and is attributed to Albrecht Dürer.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The work is a painting.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"Dürer's large AD monogram with the date 1502 is written above it at the base of the sheet.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"visual-evidence","title":"Looking and visual evidence","entries":[{"text":"The hare's face is turned toward the lower right, with a dark glossy eye, nose and long individually drawn whiskers projecting into empty paper.","kind":"visual_observation","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"Two tall ears rise above the body, one tilted left and one upright, with dark interior shading and fine hair tufts.","kind":"visual_observation","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The forelegs are stretched out on the paper with visible toes and claws, painted over a soft cast shadow that anchors the hare to the sheet.","kind":"visual_observation","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The crouching body and rounded haunch are rendered in thousands of individual brush hairs in brown, grey and pale ochre.","kind":"visual_observation","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"values","title":"Documented values and qualified estimates","entries":[{"text":"Calculated working insurance estimate, not a sale price: Estimated value: US$500K to US$2M Recorded date: Working calculation, generated 2026-10-16. Methodology: This is a conservative working insurance range generated by model calculation, not an appraisal. It is based on the confirmed artist Albrecht Durer, the attributed date 1502, watercolour and bodycolour medium, Northern Renaissance period, and the recognized subject of Young Hare. No verified dimensions, current location, accession number, provenance, or acquisition history is supplied, so no market or replacement-cost evidence can be applied. The broad range reflects the extreme prominence of the artist and the high cultural visibility of this subject while accounting for the medium's fragility, the absence of verified object records, and the requirement for manual review before any insurance decision. The range is intentionally wide because no exact scale, condition, or collection status is confirmed. Qualification: This is a model-generated working insurance range for manual review only. It is not an official insurance value, appraisal, auction result, or sale price. It does not rely on comparable sales or private insurance records. Verify the identification, attribution, condition, dimensions, provenance, and insurance requirements with a qualified professional before using this range for any coverage or financial purpose.","kind":"calculated_insurance","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]}],"archiveResearch":{"catalogueFields":[{"id":"artwork-title","label":"Title","value":"Young Hare","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"artist","label":"Artist or attribution","value":"Albrecht Dürer","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"date","label":"Object date","value":"1502","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"medium","label":"Medium and support","value":"Watercolour and bodycolour","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"movement-or-period","label":"Movement or period","value":"Northern Renaissance","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"country-or-culture","label":"Country or culture","value":"German","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"subject-summary","label":"Depicted subject","value":"A tufted hare painted from close observation, with the animal lying low, its face turned toward the lower right, whiskers projecting into empty paper, and its fur rendered in individual brush hairs.","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"title-variants","label":"Title variants","value":"Young Hare; Field Hare; Feldhase","sourceIds":[]}],"claims":[{"id":"archive-ed3e0c6d3c7f6048d789","sectionId":"identity","text":"The object is catalogued as Young Hare, a painting attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Both the title and the attribution, as recorded in the supplied documentation, are the terms under which the work is known in its catalogue record, and the medium is given as painting rather than drawing or print. These are the identifying facts the record establishes before any question of style, subject or reception is raised.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Catalogue identity and attribution","citations":[]},{"id":"f7","sectionId":"identity","text":"Dürer's large AD monogram is written at the base of the sheet, with the date 1502 above it. The monogram is the element that connects the object to Dürer in the catalogue account, and the date carried with it places the work in 1502. The two pieces of information belong together in the record: the mark identifies the author to whom the painting is attributed, and the date written alongside the mark is the date the object itself bears.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Catalogue identity and attribution","citations":[]},{"id":"archive-389b8ade793038f40eba","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"The object titled Young Hare is a painting attributed to Albrecht Dürer, and the source records that Dürer's large AD monogram with the date 1502 is written above the hare at the base of the sheet. That inscription is the evidence for both authorship and date: it identifies the work as his and places it in the early sixteenth century, in the Northern Renaissance. The attribution and the 1502 date therefore rest on the presence of the monogram and date on the sheet itself, as reported in the source metadata, rather than on external documentation. The source describes the work as a painting and supplies the composition in some detail, which allows the visual account below to be tied to a specific, dated, signed sheet rather than to a generic image of a hare.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Object, signature and date","citations":[]},{"id":"archive-885bfec174c30b5c9a28","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"A single hare crouches low, its body compact, and its face is turned toward the lower right. The dark glossy eye and nose sit close to the edge of the sheet, and long whiskers are drawn individually, projecting into empty paper. Above the body rise two tall ears, one tilted left and one upright, their interiors shaded dark and edged with fine hair. The forelegs stretch out across the paper with visible toes and claws, and beneath them sits a soft cast shadow that anchors the animal to the sheet, so the hare reads as resting on a surface rather than floating. This is the recorded composition: one animal, no landscape, no narrative, no religious subject, with the ground around it left empty.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Composition and posture","citations":[]},{"id":"archive-317c28301dec804a2408","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"The crouching body and rounded haunch are built from thousands of individual brush hairs in brown, grey and pale ochre. The result is not a flat coat of colour but a surface that mimics the direction and density of real fur, and the account of individual brush hairs is a description of technique as well as of appearance: the fur is constituted by discrete strokes rather than by a uniformly coloured area. The ears repeat this logic at a smaller scale, with dark interior shading and fine hair tufts, and the whiskers are drawn one by one rather than summarised as a mass. The same close attention extends to the extremities, where the forelegs show visible toes and claws. Taken together, these units establish a consistent working method across fur, ears and paws, in which the painter's marks remain legible as marks while producing the texture of the animal.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Materials and brushwork","citations":[]},{"id":"archive-2cba6801c2ae1ac173a2","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"The whiskers that push past the body into blank paper and the shadow that ties the feet to the sheet work in opposite directions and are both recorded features of the image. The whiskers project beyond the body into empty paper, so they carry the animal's presence past its own outline and into the unworked ground. The shadow, by contrast, holds the hare down: it anchors the animal to the sheet so that it reads as resting on a surface rather than floating. The crouching body and rounded haunch, rendered in thousands of brush hairs, sit between these two effects, giving the mass of the animal a furred volume. What the painting records, on this reading, is close looking made visible, one hair and one claw at a time, with the empty ground around the hare turning that attention into the subject of the image.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Composition and posture","citations":[]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance","sectionId":"values","text":"The single evidence unit supplied for this section is a calculated working insurance estimate rather than an appraisal or a market record. It was generated on 2026-10-16 by model calculation and gives a deliberately broad range of US$500,000 to US$2,000,000. The stated inputs are the confirmed artist Albrecht Dürer, the attributed date 1502, the watercolour and bodycolour medium, the Northern Renaissance period, and the recognized subject of Young Hare. The absence of verified dimensions, a current location, an accession number, provenance, and acquisition history means no comparable sales or replacement-cost evidence could be applied, so the figure is explicitly a working range for manual review and not an official insurance value, appraisal, auction result, or sale price.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The recorded valuation figure and its limits","citations":[]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance-2","sectionId":"values","text":"The width of the range is attributed in the evidence to two opposing pressures. The extreme prominence of the artist and the high cultural visibility of this subject push the estimate upward, while the fragility of the medium, the absence of verified object records, and the requirement for manual review before any insurance decision hold it back from a narrower or higher figure. The same unit adds that the range is intentionally wide because no exact scale, condition, or collection status is confirmed. This makes the estimate a measure of the record's incompleteness as much as of the object's standing: identifications, attribution, condition, dimensions, provenance, and insurance requirements are all flagged for verification with a qualified professional before the range is used for coverage or any financial purpose.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The recorded valuation figure and its limits","citations":[]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance-3","sectionId":"values","text":"Read against the source record for the object, the estimate's stated inputs match the attribution and medium that page describes: Young Hare as a painting attributed to Albrecht Dürer, executed in watercolour and bodycolour, associated with the Northern Renaissance and bearing the AD monogram with the date 1502. The evidence for the valuation does not itself describe the composition, condition, or physical support, so the descriptive details of the hare, the inscribed monogram, and the licensing status of the uploaded reproduction belong to the object record rather than to the valuation calculation. Keeping the two apart matters: the estimate treats the attribution and date as confirmed inputs, while the object record presents the artist attribution and the 1502 date as they appear on the work and in its catalogue entry. Any future revision of the estimate would depend on evidence about condition, dimensions, and collection status that the supplied units do not contain.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"How the valuation evidence relates to the object record","citations":[]}],"gaps":[],"coverage":{"scope":"This record brings together the supplied object-specific evidence and literature. 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