Image: Battle Scene, by Hans Holbein the Younger

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Description: Battle Scene. Pen and ink and brush, grey wash, 28.6 × 44.1 cm, Kunstmuseum Basel. This is the central section of a drawing, trimmed from a larger composition. An adapted copy by another hand, extending further to the right and left, is in the Albertina, Vienna. Holbein has applied wash to the figures in the middle, leaving those on the left sketchy. The battle depicted is not known, but a soldier on the right wears the cross of St Andrew, identifying him as a landsknecht, a German mercenary pikeman (Müller, 320–22).
Title: Battle Scene, by Hans Holbein the Younger
Credit: Christian Müller; Stephan Kemperdick; Maryan Ainsworth; et al, Hans Holbein the Younger: The Basel Years, 1515–1532, Munich: Prestel, 2006, ISBN 9783791335803.
Author: Hans Holbein
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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