Portrait of Nicolaus Kratzer
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1528
For now, just to look at
The photograph we have of this work is not sharp enough to print at the quality we want, so we are not selling it for now. We are looking for a better one.
About the work
- Artist
- Hans Holbein the Younger
- Date
- 1528
- Medium
- Oil on oak
- Dimensions
- 83 x 67 cm
- Collection
- Musée du Louvre, Paris (Department of Paintings, Room 809, Wing Richelieu)
- Reference
- XDV-2029
What the museum label doesn't tell you
The Latin inscription on the table was the subject of philological debate: in 1984 Danielle Gaborit confirmed that the text read 'secundum' (forty-second year) rather than 'primum', as had sometimes been mistakenly read in the past.
