In 1919 the Metropolitan Museum bought this watercolor from British dealer Charles Elliott Norton as a c. 1515 Dürer. Probably because it had come from the estate of Charles Sackville Bale, whose collection of watercolors was sold after his death in 1880. And probably also because there is a big AD Albrecht Dürer monogram at the top.
Reader, it is not a Dürer, and the Met’s phrase now, “in the manner of Dürer,” even feels like a stretch. But “Sold to us as a Dürer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯” is probably too much to expect the museum to say.
Bittern’s Wings: study showing both sides/ In the manner of Albrecht Dürer [the met via @curiousmiscellanies-blog via @punk-raphaelite]