Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522), Hans Holbein the Younger, 1517

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Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522), 1517, Oil and gold on paper, laid down on wood, Overall 20 1/2 x 15 in. ( x cm); painted surface 20 3/8 x 14 5/8 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London), In 1517 Holbein decorated the house of the Lucerne magistrate Jacob von Hertenstein. Concurrently, he made this portrait of the magistrate's eldest son, Benedikt, who engages the viewer both with his direct glance and the inscription, which reads as if he is speaking: 'When I looked like this I was twenty-two years old

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