Bearded man with chain necklace

Wenceslaus Hollar|Hans Holbein the Younger

1647 · Etching; margin cut thwarting state assignment · Drawings and Prints

Portrait of an elderly man with short straight hair, curly sideburn, mustache and beard, nearly half-length, directed to left with head in profile, looking down; wearing a high cap and heavy double chain with pearl and jewelled cross pendants.

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar|Hans Holbein the Younger

Date

1647

Medium

Etching; margin cut thwarting state assignment

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951