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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger: Portrait of Dorothea Meyer, née Kannengiesser

🖼 Portrait of Dorothea Meyer, née Kannengiesser, 1516
Oil on linden panel
40 × 32 cm
Basel, Switzerland

Precise brushwork captures a woman's composed gaze against dark background, her jeweled headdress and rich fabrics rendered with meticulous detail. Holbein's penetrating portrait demonstrates early 16th-century German mastery of psychological likeness and social status through costume.

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