, though he was
in a great measure master of what it conveys, especially of natural
science and mathematics. He was well acquainted with the principal
facts of these sciences, and could apply them as well as set them
forth in words: witness his treatises on geometry, in which there is
nothing to be desired that I can find, at least so far as he has
undertaken to treat the subject.... But Nature had especially designed
him for painting, which study he embraced with all his might, and was
never tired of considering the works and methods of celebrated
painters, and learning from them all that commended itself to him....
If he had a fault it was this: that he worked with too untiring
industry, and practised a degree of severity towards himself that he
often carried beyond bounds."

A LIST OF
ALBERT DUeRER'S CHIEF PAINTINGS

NOW IN EXISTENCE, WITH THE DATES OF THEIR EXECUTION, AND THEIR
PRESENT LOCATIONS.

_The interrogation-mark is annexed to the titles of certain paintings
which two or more critics regard as of doubtful authenticity._

GERMANY.

NUREMBERG.--_Germanic Museum,_--Emperor Maximilian; Burgomaster
Holzschuher, 1526. _St. Maurice Gallery,_--Pieta; Ecce Homo.
_Rath-Haus_,--Emperor Sigismund(?); Charlemagne(?).

MUNICH PINAKOTHEK.--Baumgaertner Altar-piece, 1513; Suicide of
Lucretia, 1518; Albert Duerer, 1500; Oswald Krell, 1499; Michael
Wohlgemuth, 1516; Albert Duerer the Elder, 1497; the Nativity; Sts.
Paul and Mark, 1526; Sts. Peter and John, 1526; a Knight in Armor(?);
Sts. Joachim and Joseph, 1523; St. Simeon and Bishop Lazarus, 1523;
Death of the Virgin; a Young Man, 1500; Pieta(?); Mater Dolorosa.

DRESDEN MUSEUM.--Christ Bearing the Cross; the Crucifixion; a Hare;
Lucas van Leyden; Madonna and Saints (?).

COLOGNE.--_Museum,_--Drummer and Piper; Madonna (?). _Church of Sta.
Maria im Capitol,_--Death of the Virgin.

FRANKFORT.--_Municipal Gallery,_--Two portraits. _Staedel
Institute,_--Catherine Fuerleger; Albert Duerer the Elder.

CASSEL.--_Friedrich Museum,_--The Passion. _Bellevue,_--Erasmus of
Rotterdam.

POMMERSFELDEN.--Jacob Mueffel.

LUSTSCHENA (Baron Speck).--A Young Lady.

ASCHAFFENBURG.--Albert Duerer.

AUGSBURG.--Two Masques. Several others in the Castle of Stolzenfels.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA.--_Belvedere,_--Emperor Maximilian, 1519; Martyrdom of the Ten
Thousand Christians, 1508; Madonna, 1506; Adoration of the Magi, 1504;
Madonna, 1503; Adoration of the Holy Trini