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Saint Thomas

Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London)

Date:: 1527
Medium:: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white
Dimensions:: 8 1/16 x 4 1/8 in. (20.4 x 10.5 cm)
Classification:: Drawings
Credit Line:: Purchase, Pat and John Rosenwald Gift, Rogers Fund, and Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, 2001
Accession Number:: 2001.188

This artwork is part of Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400–1700

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Recto, lower center, in brown ink, presumably by Holbein: 1527 Verso, lower right, in pen and ink, by a later hand: von...son der zul vor... burg gestorben ist Mount, recto, bottom right, in graphite: HANS HOLBEIN 2001.188
Provenance

Leo Blumenreich (Berlin, 1884–ca. 1933); Franz Koenigs (Cologne 1881–1941 Haarlem/Rotterdam); Sotheby's, New YorkJanuary 23, 2001, lot 12; Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Munich; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich Donor: Pat and John Rosenwald Gift Donor: Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler , Theresa Sackler and Family
References

Walter Hugelshofer "A Set of Drawings of the Apostles by Hans Holbein the Younger" Old Master Drawings. 13, June 1929, fig. no. 3, p. 1, ill.

John Rowlands, Giulia Bartrum The Age of Dürer and Holbein German Drawings 1400-1550. Cambridge, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, Sydney, 1988, cat. no. 196.

John Rowlands, Giulia Bartrum Drawings by German Artists in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. I-II, London, 1993, cat. no. Vol.1, under 318, Vol.1, p. 146.

Colta Ives "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin" Recent Acquisitions: A Selection: 2000-2001. no. 2, 59, New York, Fall 2001, p. 23, ill.

Michiel C. Plomp "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin" Recent Acquisitions: A Selection: 2001. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2001, fig. no. p.23, p. 23, ill.

Sotheby's, New York Old Master and Modern Drawings and Prints from the Franz Koenigs Collection [January 23, 2001]. New York, 2001, cat. no. 12, fig. no. 12, pp. 36-37, ill.

Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 29 (entry written by Stijn Alsteens); p. x, xi (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.