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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger: Portrait of a Member of the Wedigh Family

🖼 Portrait of a Member of the Wedigh Family, 1532
Oil and gold on oak panel
41 × 31 cm
New York, United States

Rendered in precise oil technique, this merchant displays austere composure against a dark background, his gaze direct and unwavering. Holbein's unflinching portraiture captures Northern Renaissance ideals of bourgeois dignity and merchant-class prominence in early sixteenth-century Germany.

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