Hand-Colored Portrait Prints

Albrecht Dürer
Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I
1518-19
hand-colored woodcut
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg

Wolfgang Resch
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
(successor to Maximilian I)
1519
hand-colored woodcut
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Agostino Musi (Agostino Veneziano)
Hayreddin Barbarossa, Ottoman Admiral
1535
hand-colored engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Niccolò Nelli
Heinrich der Jüngere,
Herzog zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg
ca. 1560
hand-colored engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Jan Sadeler the Elder
Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy
ca. 1570
hand-colored engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Martino Rota after Agostino Carracci
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
1586
hand-colored engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Wolfgang Kilian the Elder after Johann Matthias Kager
Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria
1619
hand-colored engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Sébastien Vouillemont
Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany
1637
hand-colored engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Paulus Pontius after Nikolaus van der Horst
Mulay Hasan, King of Tunis
ca. 1640
hand-colored engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Jeremias Falck after Justus van Egmont
Louis XIII, King of France
(died in 1643)
1643
hand-colored engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Jeremias Falck after Justus van Egmont
Anne of Austria, Queen of France
(became Regent for her Son in 1643)
1643
hand-colored engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Jeremias Falck after Justus van Egmont
Louis XIV, King of France
(acceded to the throne in 1643)
1643
hand-colored engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Pieter Louis van Schuppen after Jacques de Sève
Anne-Marie Louise d'Orléans,
duchesse de Montpensier
1666
hand-colored engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Johann Kenckel
Georg Wilhelm,
Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
ca. 1720
hand-colored mezzotint
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Edvard Munch
Posthumous Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche
1906
hand-colored lithograph
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Nikolai Astrup
Young Woman from Sunnfjord
ca. 1915
hand-colored woodcut
KODE (Art Museums Complex), Bergen, Norway

Riddle:  If you had taken me in my youth, haply you would have drunk the blood shed from me; but now that time has finished making me old, eat me, wrinkled as I am, with no moisture in me, crushing my bones together with my flesh.

Answer: A raisin.

Riddle:  I am part of an animal which affects the ground, and if you take a single letter away from me I become a part of the head.  If you take away another I shall again be an animal, and if you take yet another away you will not find me one, but two hundred. 

Answer: ποὺς (foot), οὺς (ear), ὺς (pig), ς (sign for 200)

Riddle:  I have nothing inside me and everything is inside me, and I grant the use of my virtue to all without charge.

Answer:  A mirror.

Riddle:  Childless child of childless parents, arrow-bearing, with a child in me, a lifting up.

Answer:  The answer has not been discovered.

Problem:  Mother, why dost thou pursue me with blows on account of the walnuts?  Pretty girls divided them all among themselves.  For Melission took two-sevenths of them from me, and Titane took the twelfth.  Playful Astyoche and Philinna have the sixth and third.  Thetis seized and carried off twenty, and Thisbe twelve, and look there at Glauce smiling sweetly with eleven in her hand.  This one nut is all that is left to me. 

Solution:  There were 336 (96 + 28 + 56 + 112 + 20 + 12 +11 +1)

Problem:  The sun, the moon, and the planets of the revolving zodiac spun such a nativity for thee; for a sixth part of thy life to remain an orphan with thy dear mother, for an eighth part to perform forced labour for thy enemies.  For a third part the gods shall grant thee home-coming, and likewise a wife and a late-born son by her.  Then thy son and wife shall perish by the spears of the Scythians, and then having shed tears for them thou shalt reach the end of thy life in twenty-seven years.

Solution:  He lived 72 years (12 + 9 + 24 + 27)

– from Book XIV (Arithmetical Problems, Riddles, Oracles) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1918)