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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
An unidentified man 1535
Black and coloured chalks, white bodycolour, pen and ink, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper | 29.8 x 22.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912259
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A portrait drawing of an unidentified man. A bust length portrait with the body facing three-quarters to the left, and the head facing to the front. It corresponds with a portrait on panel by a follower of Holbein in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This study corresponds very closely to a painted portrait in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The sitter is not identified on either the drawing or the painting (which appears to be by an assistant of Holbein), but he has been tentatively identified as Sir Ralph Sadeler, a protégé of Thomas Cromwell.
Provenance
Henry VIII; Edward VI, 1547; Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel; by whom bequeathed to John, Lord Lumley, 1580; by whom probably bequeathed to Henry, Prince of Wales, 1609, and thus inherited by Prince Charles (later Charles I), 1612; by whom exchanged with Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, 1627/8; by whom given to Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel; acquired by Charles II by 1675
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Medium and techniques
Black and coloured chalks, white bodycolour, pen and ink, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper
black chalk, red chalk, yellowish brown chalk, white chalk, white bodycolour, pen and ink, metalpoint, pale pink prepared paperMeasurements
29.8 x 22.2 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 12259
