Holbein

Chapter 12

Chalk Drawing. Windsor Castle.

(The Miniature at Windsor Castle, formerly said to be Holbein"s portrait of Catherine Parr, is now said to be Catherine Howard. If so, it is somewhat difficult to reconcile it with the drawing, which latter seems much more in keeping with the descriptions of her traits.)

t.i.tle-page used in Cranmer"s Bible. Woodcut.

(This is the t.i.tle-page from which Cromwell"s Arms are erased in the second edition.)

Sir Nicholas Carew.

Oils. Dalkeith Palace. Chalk Drawing. Basel Museum.

Simon George of Cornwall.

Oils. Stadel Inst.i.tut, Frankfurt.

Miniature portrait of Charles Brandon, son of the Duke of Suffolk.

Windsor Castle.

Lady; unknown.

Oils. Imperial Gallery, Vienna.

Also a fine portrait of an unknown man.

Oils. Same Gallery.

Sir Richard Southwell.

Oils. Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Chalk Drawing. Windsor Castle.

John Reskymeer.

Oils. Hampton Court Gallery.

Nicholas Poyntz.

Oils. De la Rosiere Collection, Paris. Chalk Drawing. Windsor Castle.

Sir John Russell.

Oils. Woburn Abbey. Chalk Drawing. Windsor Castle.

Three portraits; men unknown.

Oils. Berlin Gallery.

Designs for jewelry, ornamental panels, clocks, chimney-piece, etc., etc. Washed Drawings. British Museum, Basel Museum, etc.

Many fine portraits of which no versions in oils are known.

Chalk Drawings. Windsor Castle.

Among these one of Edward VI. as boy Prince of Wales, the d.u.c.h.ess of Suffolk, Sir Thomas Wyatt, etc., etc.

Dr. John Chamber, or Chambers.

Oils. Imperial Gallery, Vienna.

Also many other oil-portraits, more or less genuine, in various Collections.

REFERENCES

The Literature of Holbein"s Life, much more of his Works, is far too extensive to admit of a Bibliography in a volume of this sort. But the following List will be found to contain (or themselves refer the reader to) all that is of essential importance to even the most complete study of this Master.

Carel van Mander, _Het Schilder-Boeck_, etc., 1604.

The above translated into French, and admirably edited by M. Henri Hyman. 2 tom., 1884.

Alfred Woltmann, _Holbein und seine Zeit. Zweite umgearbeitete Auflage_, 1874. 2 Bde.

There is an English translation of the First Edition of 1871, by F. E. Bunnett; but unfortunately its views on many vital points are reversed by Woltmann himself in his latest edition.

R. N. Wornum, _Some Account of the Life and Works of Hans Holbein_, 1867.

Corrected in many respects by the author in a monograph on "The Meier Madonna," 1891.

Paul Mantz, _Hans Holbein_. Paris, 1879.

H. Knackfuss, _Holbein_. Leipzig, 1899.

English translation of the above by Mr. Campbell Dodgson.

Eduard His, _Die Basler Archive uber Hans Holbein den Jungern_. In Zahn"s _Jahrbucher fur Kunstwissenschaft_, 1870.

Francis Douce, _The Dance of Death_, 1833.

J. R. Smith, _Holbein"s Dance of Death_, 1849.

(Especially fine reproductions.)

H. N. Humphreys, _Holbein"s Dance of Death_, 1868.

G. Th. Fechner, _uber die Deutungsfrage der Holbein"schen Madonna._ _Die alteste historische Quelle uber die Holbein"sche Madonna_.

Both in _Archiv fur die zeichnenden Kunste_, 1866, I., 4.

These give all the known facts of the history of the Meyer Madonnas of Darmstadt and Dresden.

S. Larpent, _Sur le portrait de Morett_. Christiania, 1881.

Mary F. S. Hervey, _Holbein"s "Amba.s.sadors,"_ 1900.

This volume also embodies, and gives the references to, the original identifications of Professor Sidney Colvin, and the suggested identifications of Mr. C. L. Eastlake; as well as to the contribution concerning the hymn-book by Mr. Barclay Squire.

W. F. d.i.c.kes, _Holbein"s "Amba.s.sadors" Unriddled_, 1903.

F. A. Zetter-Collin, _Die Zetter"sche Madonna von Solothurn.

Ihre Geschichte aus Originalquellen_, etc.

In _Festschrift des Kunst-Vereins der Stadt Solothurn_, 1902.

Artur Seeman, _Der Brunnen des Lebens, von H. Holbein_.

In _Zeitschrift fur bildende Kunst_. Mai, 1903.

With a superb ill.u.s.tration in colour.

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