Hans Holbein the Younger, 1532 - Erasmus of Rotterdam - fine art print

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Hans Holbein the Younger was one of the most celebrated portraitists of the sixteenth century. At an early age he won commissions to paint portraits of prominent merchants in Basel, and in later years he attracted powerful patrons in England, including Sir Thomas More. Holbein made several portraits of the great humanist and scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466/1469 - 1536). Shown in half-length three-quarter profile, his hands just visible between the fur cuffs of his coat, Erasmus is depicted as he appeared around 1530, when he was about sixty. Tufts of the sitter's gray hair poke out from beneath his black cap, deep lines mark the area around his mouth, and the skin shows signs of loosening below his stubbly chin, but the sensitivity and intensity of Erasmus's scholarly mind are still richly apparent in his piercing dark eyes. Holbein's close association with the humanist and scholar is reflected not only in these and other admiring portraits but also in the letters of introduction written on Holbein's behalf by Erasmus to his friends in England when the artist traveled there in 1526. It was through Erasmus that Holbein was commissioned to paint portraits of Sir Thomas More and his family. The white label painted at the upper left of this panel is a later addition, made some fifty years after Holbein's death when the painting was in the collection of John, Lord Lumley of Surrey and London.

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The 16th century masterpiece Erasmus of Rotterdam was painted by the artist Hans Holbein the Younger. The 480 year-old artwork measures the size: 7 1/4 x 5 9/16 in (18,4 x 14,2 cm); painted surface 6 15/16 x 5 1/2 in (17,6 x 14 cm). Oil on linden panel was used by the painter as the technique for the artpiece. Nowadays, this piece of art can be viewed in in the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (licensed - public domain). Furthermore, the artpiece has the following creditline: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. In addition to this, the alignment is in portrait format with an image ratio of 3 : 4, which implies that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Hans Holbein the Younger was a engraver, painter from Germany, whose art style was mainly Northern Renaissance. The Northern Renaissance artist lived for a total of 46 years - born in 1497 in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany and passed away in 1543.

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