DETAILS
- Artist
- Hans Holbein
- Date
- 1495
- Medium
- silverpoint; traces of framing lines in graphite
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Drawings
- Culture
- Germany, late 15th-early 16th Century
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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