[1]: The name used thus, without further identification, is to be taken throughout these pages to mean Hans Holbein the Younger.
[2]: Variously written Meyer, Meier, Mejer, Meiger, or Megger. Bär is also written Ber, or Berin.
[3]: I am deeply indebted to the personal kindness and trouble of Sir Martin Gosselin, K.C.M.G., British Minister at the Court of Portugal, for greatly facilitating my own study of this interesting picture.
[4]: I am indebted to the personal kindness of the discoverer's son, Herr Direktor Zetter-Collin of the Solothurn Museum, for these details. But the whole story, as well as Herr Zetter-Collin's contributions to the history of the work, should be read in his own absorbingly interesting monograph:—"Die Zetter'sche Madonna von Solothurn. (…) Ihre Geschichte, etc." 1902.
[5]: "Die Liebe zu Gott Heist charite.
Wer Liebe hat der Tragt kein Hass."
A CATALOGUE OF THE PRINCIPAL
EXISTING WORKS OF
HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER
ARRANGED, SO FAR AS CAN BE KNOWN,
IN CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE
| ** signifies | —Superlative qualities. |
| * signifies | —Of some particular importance. |
| ? signifies | —Authorities differ. Held by some (and by the writer) to have been, in its original condition, the work of Holbein's own hand. |