This drawing presents Albrecht Dürer's self-portrait along with studies of a hand and pillow on the recto, with six additional pillow studies on the verso, created in 1493 when the artist was barely twenty years old. The self-portrait shows the artist's head with shoulder-length hair, accompanied by an outsized hand posed as if holding an invisible pen, with a pillow study below. The drawing served as preparatory work for Dürer's painted Self-Portrait of 1493 now in the Louvre, considered one of the earliest independent self-portraits in Western painting. The pillow studies represent exercises in depicting drapery, allowing the young artist to explore the play of light on folds and its expressive possibilities, continuing a tradition of drapery studies essential to artistic training. Dürer created this work in pen and brown ink on paper, demonstrating his exceptional draftsmanship and observational skills. The drawing reveals the methodical approach to artistic preparation characteristic of Dürer's working process. These studies represent an important moment in the development of the artist who would become the greatest printmaker of the Northern Renaissance and a key figure in introducing Italian Renaissance ideas to German art.