Portrait of jacob meyer zum hasen. Black and coloured chalks, lead point and scored lines on the contours, background coloured light green, 38. 3 × 27. 5 cm, kunstmuseum basel. Although hans holbein went on to become a prolific and renowned portraitist in london, he produced relatively few portraits in basel. Jakob meyer zum hasen, a senior official and sometime mayor of basel, became one of his most important early patrons. This is a preparatory drawing for the work known as the darmstadt madonna, which portrays meyer with his family and the madonna and child. Holbein had also drawn meyer in 1516. A staunch catholic, meyer lost his political influence during the basel reformation. (stephanie buck, hans holbein, cologne: könemann, 1999, isbn 3829025831, pp. 76–82. ). Date: c. 1525–26.
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