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| Portrait of Henry VIII of England, 1540 Hans Holbein the Younger Galleria Nationale d'Arte Antica, Rome |
Yesterday I had a day off from work, so I went into San Francisco to the Legion of Honor to see the Tudor show now on there (through September 24). There was much of interest to see, but it's worth going just for the paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger. There are no less than five on view – offering a rare opportunity to see a large group of works by one of the world's greatest portraitists all at once.
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| Hermann von Wedigh III, 1532 Hans Holbein the Younger The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
The paintings are on loan from the National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C., the painting galleries of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, in Vienna, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, and the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, in Rome. I've reproduced the four full-sized paintings here (the fifth is a miniature that I was unable to photograph well), along with a fairly spectacular full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, not by Holbein.
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| Jane Seymour 1537 Hans Holbein the Younger Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Edward VI as a Child 1538 Hans Holbein the Younger National Gallery of Art, Washington |
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| Elizabeth 1, c.1599 Attributed to the workshop of Nicholas Hilliard National Trust Collections, Hardwick Hall |
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