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Portrait of a Young Merchant, by Hans Holbein the Younger (1498-1543).
Copyright Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria, Gemäldegalerie, 905.
'Portrait of a Young Merchant' or 'Portrait of a Young Man at his Desk' is a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543). It dates to 1541 and measures 46.5 x 34.8 cm. The man is depicted wearing rich, but subdued clothing, including a black fur coat with short sleeves. The shirt is pulled into small gathers around the neck and fastened into a collar band decorated with blackwork with a design in dull yellow.
The basic pattern of the embroidery is made up of a series of connecting large and small diamonds with intricate foliage motifs.
The artist has indicated some whitework embroidery around the cuffs of the shirt, but no further details can be identified.
The painting is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria, Gemäldegalerie, 905
Kunsthistorisches Museum online catalogue (retrieved 6 June 2016).
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