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Hans Holbein : Self-Portrait, 1542
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Hans Holbein the Younger

[German Northern Renaissance Painter, 1497-1543]

• Relationships: Son of Hans Holbein the Elder.
Brother of Ambrosius Holbein.
• Subject matter:  Specializes in Portraits.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Notable SiteHans Holbein at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Notable SiteJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Holbein

Notable SiteKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Notable SiteKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Jane Seymour

Notable SiteKunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Notable SiteHans Holbein at the Louvre Museum, Paris
William Warham, 1527

Notable SiteHans Holbein at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Erasmus, ca.1523

Notable SiteHans Holbein at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Study for the Triumph of Riches, pen and ink drawing, ca.1532

Notable SiteHans Holbein at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Portrait of a young woman smiling

Notable SiteLouvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)   NEW!  

Notable SiteMauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague

Notable SiteMauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague   NEW!
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project

Notable SiteHans Holbein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
7 paintings

Notable SiteHans Holbein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Saint Thomas, pen and ink drawing, 1527

Notable SiteNational Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Notable SiteHans Holbein at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Hans Holbein the Younger

Notable SiteNational Gallery, London, UK   NEW!

Notable SiteStädel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Portrait of Simon George of Cornwall

Notable SiteThe Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")

Notable SiteYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  
A Hanseatic Merchant

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!
Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1530/31

Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VI), 1538

Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan

Dresden State Art Collections

Falmouth Art Gallery, England   NEW!
Portrait of a man with a beard

Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland   NEW!

Frick Collection, New York City
Sir Thomas More, 1527
Thomas Cromwell, 1532-33

Galleria Borghese, Rome
Ritratto di Enrico VIII

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "H"

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  

Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)  

Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  
Giovane donna inglese (Young Englishwoman)

Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)   NEW!  

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Mary, Lady Guildford, 1527

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas

State Museums of Berlin
Georg Gisze

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

The British Museum, London, UK

The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Edward VI as Prince of Wales
Queen Jane Seymour


Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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Portrait of King Henry VIII, ca.1534-36

Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
Portrait of a Lady
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Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK

Virtual Uffizi

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums
6 works

D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections   NEW!

Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)  

UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)   NEW!

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Notable SiteArt Renewal Center

Notable SiteArtchive  

Notable SiteCGFA  

Notable SiteThe Athenaeum  
134 works online

Notable SiteWeb Gallery of Art  

Notable SiteWebMuseum  

Notable SiteWikimedia Commons Image Database  

Notable SiteWorld Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Aiwaz Panopticon

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

California State University WorldImages Database  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

Olga's Gallery

 
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 474

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

Medieval Macabre
The Hans Holbein Dance of Death

The Modernist Journals Project

 
Articles and Reference Sites:
Notable SiteEncyclopedia Britannica complete article on Hans Holbein   
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Notable SiteGrove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Notable SiteUnion List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Notable SiteWikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Apollo Magazine
Article: "Holbein's portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger"

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Christina of Denmark, ca.1538

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling, ca.1526-28


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Holbein and England


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Hans Holbein the Younger: A Guide to Research


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The Dance Of Death


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Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man


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