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Portrait of Anna Meyer |
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| Date | circa 1525-1526 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Black and coloured chalks, lead point and scored lines and the contours and face, background coloured light green | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 39.1 cm (15.3 in); width: 27.5 cm (10.8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Notes | Although Hans Holbein went on to become a prolific and renowned portraitist in London, he produced relatively few portraits in Basel. The sitter's father, Jakob Meyer zum Hasen, a senior official and sometime mayor of Basel, became one of his most important early patrons. This portrait is a preparatory drawing for the work known as the Darmstadt Madonna, which portrays Jakob Meyer with his family and the Madonna and Child. Meyer's first wife, Magdalena Baer (d. 1511), is also included. Anna was probably between 13 and 15 at the time of this study. Holbein drew her seated, and with her loose hair signifying her virginity. In the final version of the Meyer Madonna (detail, right), she is kneeling and looks older, with most of her hair tucked into a chaplet, the headdress girls wore to church from their fifteenth year. The pink flowers in the chaplet may symbolise her betrothal. (Stephanie Buck, Hans Holbein, Cologne: Könemann, 1999, ISBN 3829025831, pp. 76–82; Müller, p. 334.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | Christian Müller; Stephan Kemperdick; Maryan Ainsworth; et al, Hans Holbein the Younger: The Basel Years, 1515–1532, Munich: Prestel, 2006, ISBN 9783791335803. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| current | 21:14, 12 March 2009 | | 2,010 × 2,865 (2.24 MB) | Qp10qp | {{Information |Description={{en|1=''Portrait of Anna Meyer.'' Black and coloured chalks, lead point and scored lines and the contours and face, background coloured light green, {{nowrap|39.1 × 27.5 cm}}, Kunstmuseum Basel.}} |Source=Christian Müller |
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