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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger: Portrait of Dirk Tybis

🖼 Portrait of Dirk Tybis, 1533
Oil on oak
48 × 35 cm
Vienna, Austria

Penetrating gaze and precise draftsmanship define this portrait of a merchant, rendered in Holbein's characteristic Northern Renaissance style. The work exemplifies early 16th-century bourgeois portraiture, capturing individual identity with psychological depth that influenced German portrait conventions.

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