Hans Holbein the younger . Vol. I., Plate 3 ST. BARBARA ST. ELIZABETH Inner sides of the wings of the St. Sebastian Altar-piece Hans Holbein the Elder Alte Pinakothek, Munich. THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE 17 of England in Charles IIs time, but no traces of it are to be foundin any inventory. If the picture ever was in this country, it canhave been only for a short time, for about the year 1628 it was in thecollection of the Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria, and is very care-fully described in a manuscript catalogue of his pictures of that date,with the measurements, the date, and the name of the artist
Hans Holbein the younger . Vol. I., Plate 3 ST. BARBARA ST. ELIZABETH Inner sides of the wings of the St. Sebastian Altar-piece Hans Holbein the Elder Alte Pinakothek, Munich. THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE 17 of England in Charles IIs time, but no traces of it are to be foundin any inventory. If the picture ever was in this country, it canhave been only for a short time, for about the year 1628 it was in thecollection of the Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria, and is very care-fully described in a manuscript catalogue of his pictures of that date,with the measurements, the date, and the name of the artist— vonHanns Holpain ao 1519 gemalt. x It is signed Iohannes Hol-bein Fecit 1519/ but from its present condition this signatureseems to have been painted over an older one. Attention was firstcalled to the picture by Pietro Guarienti, keeper of the Dresden Gal-lery, who was in Portugal from 1733 to 1736. He read the nameas Holtein, and considered it to be the work of one of Holbeinspupils. This would indicate that the signature was then becomingillegible, and that it was renovated some time after Guarienti sawit. On the inner edge of the circular fountain in the foregr
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