Battle_Scene,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg
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Summary
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English:
Battle Scene
. Pen and ink and brush, grey wash,
28.6 × 44.1 cm
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Kunstmuseum Basel
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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).
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| Date | circa 1524 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | Christian Müller; Stephan Kemperdick; Maryan Ainsworth; et al , Hans Holbein the Younger: The Basel Years, 1515–1532, Munich: Prestel, 2006, ISBN 9783791335803 . | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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