New Publication Challenges Attribution of National Gallery Painting to Albrecht Dürer

A recently published book proposes that a painting housed at London's National Gallery, previously considered a replica, may be an authentic work by Albrecht Dürer. Art historians had long categorized the portrait as one of numerous copies of a lost original by the Northern Renaissance master. The new research argues that this damaged artwork is actually the genuine piece created by Dürer himself. This reattribution could significantly alter the understanding of the artist's surviving oeuvre and the painting's historical importance.