 Until some time in the 19th century the painting was hung with and kept as a companion piece with "Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70"; in 1636 the two paintings were gifted as a pair to Charles I of England by the city of Nuremberg, and this work was at some point acquired by Philip IV of Spain.Today it is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.Dürer is depicted in front of an open window before a flat landscape containing a lake and distant snow-capped mountains.