Hans Holbein the Younger, Volume 1 (of 2)

by Arthur B. Chamberlain

[231]. Or, according to some writers, St. Martin of Tours.

[232]. Holbein, p. 234.

[233]. See Ethel Halsey, Gaudenzio Ferrari, p. 42, and Ganz, Holbein, p. 234.

[234]. First deciphered by Herr F. A. Zetter-Collin. The carpet itself recalls more than one very similar carpet in Ferrari’s pictures, though the latter are much finer in design; in a “Madonna and Child” belonging to Sig. Vittadini at Arcorre, for instance, or the “Christ before Herod” in the Varallo frescoes.

[235]. See note to No. 91 in Basel Catalogue, 1908.

[236]. “Ein nackend kindlin sitzt vf einer schlangen kompt von Holbeins gemeld durch H. Bocken vf holtz mit olfarben mehrteil nachgemolt.”

[237]. Woltmann, No. 173. Eng. by J. C. Loedel for Weigel’s Hdz. berühmter Meister.

[238]. Woltmann, vol. i. p. 183.

[239]. Woltmann, 161. Reproduced by Sir Claude Phillips, The Picture Gallery of Charles I, Portfolio monograph, 1896, p. 63; Ganz, Holbein, p. 60.

[240]. See Ganz, Holbein, p. 237.