IV.

LAST BASEL PERIOD
(1528-1531)

**Portrait group of Holbein's wife, Elsbeth, and his two eldest children. [Plate [25].] Oils, on paper. Basel Museum. (Outline hard from having been cut out and mounted.)
King Rehoboam replying to his people, and ** Samuel denouncing Saul. [Plate [26].] Two Washed Drawings. Basel Museum. (These are the designs for "the back wall" of the Basel Council Chamber.)
"Portrait of an English Lady" (unknown). Chalk Drawing. Basel Museum.
**Portrait of an unknown young man in a broad-brimmed hat. Chalk Drawing. Basel Museum. (This is one of the most beautiful of Holbein's portrait studies. There is a soft, yet virile, witchery about it which haunts the memory.)
Round Portrait of Erasmus. (Bust, ¾ view.) Oils. Basel Museum.
Designs for dagger-sheaths and other goldsmith's work. Washed Drawings. Basel Museum, British Museum, etc. (More especially the "Dance of Death"; a chef-d'œuvre.)
A ship making sail. Washed Drawing. Städel Institut. Frankfurt.