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image of Edward VI as a Child
Hans Holbein the Younger (painter)
German, 1497/1498 - 1543
Edward VI as a Child, probably 1538
oil on panel
Overall: 56.8 x 44 cm (22 3/8 x 17 5/16 in.) framed: 80 x 68.6 x 10.2 cm (31 1/2 x 27 x 4 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
1937.1.64
From the Tour: German Painting and Sculpture in the Late 1400s and 1500s
Object 9 of 12
1753Uffenbach, Zacharias Conrad von. Merkwürdige Reisen durch Niedersachsen Holland und Engelland. 3 vols. 1753-1754. Ulm, 1753: 2:376-377.
1844Molthan, Justus. Verzeichniss der Bildhauerwerke und Gemälde welche sich in den königlich hannoverschen Schlössern und Gebäuden befinden. Hanover, 1844: 65, no. 12.
1854Waagen, Gustav Friedrich. Treasures of Art in Great Britain ... 4 vols. London, 1854: 2:448.
1859Nichols, John Gough. A Catalogue of the Portraits of King Edward the Sixth, both Painted and Engraved. N.p., 1859: 3, no. 2.
1863Franks, Augustus W. "Remarks on the Discovery of the Will of Hans Holbein." Archaeologia 39 (1863): 8-9.
1863Nichols, John Gough. "Notices of the Contemporaries and Successors of Holbein." Archaeologia 39 (1863): 20.
1863Parthey, Gustav Friedrich. Deutscher Bildersaal. Verzeichniss der in Deutschland vorhandenen Oelbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen. 2 vols. Berlin, 1863: 1:600, no. 29.
1864Das königlich Welfen-Museum zu Hannover im Jahre 1863. Hannover, 1864: 93, no. 239.
1866Woltmann, Alfred. Holbein und seine Zeit. Leipzig, 1866: 333-334. (English ed., London, 1872: 431-433.)
1867Wornum, Ralph Nicholson. Some Account of the Life and Works of Hans Holbein, Painter, of Augsburg. London, 1867: 322-324.
1897Knackfuss, Hermann. Holbein der jüngere. Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1897: 136, 138, repro. 132. (English ed. Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1899: 147, repro. 138.
1903Davies, Gerald S. Hans Holbein the Younger. London, 1903: 177.
1912Cust, Lionel. "Notes on the Collections formed by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, K. G. -V." The Burlington Magazine 21 (1912): 258, no. 30.
1912Ganz, Paul. Hans Holbein D. J. Des Meisters Gemälde in 252 Abbildungen. (Klassiker der Kunst, vol. 20) Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1912: 242, repro. 122.
1913Chamberlain, Arthur B. Hans Holbein the Younger. 2 vols. London, 1913: 2:164-165.
1921Hervey, Mary F. S. The Life, Correspondence, & Collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel. Cambridge, 1921: 482.
1924Schmid, Heinrich Alfred. "Holbein, Hans, d. J." Thieme-Becker 1924, 17:351.
1927Vaughan, Malcolm. "Holbein Portraits in America. Part II." International Studio 88 (1927): 63-64, repro. 66.
1928"Amerika." Pantheon 1 (1928): 270, repro. 273.
1929Stein, Wilhelm. Holbein. Berlin, 1929: 308, 310.
1931Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Thirty-five Portraits from American Collections." Art News 29, no. 33 (1931): 4, repro. 27.
1936Kuhn, Charles L. A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1936: 83, no. 370, repro. pl. 80.
1937"Trends." American Architect and Architecture. 150 (March 1937): 4, repro.
1937Christoffel, Ulrich. "Das Kinderbildnis." Die Kunst 75 (1937): 226, repro.
1937Cortissoz, Royal. An Introduction to the Mellon Collection. N.p., 1937: 43.
1937Jewell, Edward Alden. "Mellon's Gift." Magazine of Art 30 (1937): 82, repro. 79.
1938Waetzoldt, Wilhelm. Hans Holbein der Jüngere. Werk und Welt.. Berlin, 1938: 197-198, pl. 93.
1941Held, Julius S. "Masters of Northern Europe, 1430-1660, in the National Gallery." Art News 40 (1941): 12, repro. 15.
1941Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 98-99, as Edward VI as Prince of Wales.
1942Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 240, repro. 38, as Edward VI as Prince of Wales.
1943Ganz, Paul. "Holbein and Henry VIII." The Burlington Magazine 83 (1943): 272, repro. pl. A.
1944Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 82, color repro., as Edward VI as Prince of Wales.
1945Parker, Karl Theodore. The Drawings of Hans Holbein in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Winsor Castle. London and New York, 1945: 49, under no. 46, repro.
1948Louchheim, Aline B. "Children Should Be Seen." Art News Annual 46 (1948): 55-56, repro.
1948Schmid, Heinrich Alfred. Hans Holbein der Jüngere. Sein Aufstieg zur Meisterschaft und sein Englischer Stil. 3 vols. 1945-1948. Basel, 1948: 2:376.
1949Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 64, repro.
1950Ganz, Paul. The Paintings of Hans Holbein, First Complete Edition. London, 1950: 251, no. 105, pl. 146. (German ed., Basel: 235, no. 105, pl. 146.)
1950Goldblatt, Maurice H. "Leonardo da Vinci and Andrea Salai." The Connoisseur 125 (1950): 73-74, repro.
1951Grossmann, Fritz. "Holbein, Flemish Paintings and Everhard Jabach." The Burlington Magazine 93 (1951): 21.
1956Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 40, repro.
1957Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 72
1958Cauman, Samuel. The Living Museum. Experiences of an Art Historian and Museum Director -- Alexander Dorner. New York, 1958: 30-31, 47.
1958Millar, Oliver. "Abraham van der Doort's Catalogue of the Collections of Charles I." Walpole Society 37 (1958-1960): 108, no. 22, 233.
1958Waetzoldt, Wilhelm. Hans Holbein der Jüngere. Königstein im Taunus, 1958: 24, 80, repro. 71.
1960Broadley, Hugh T. German Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Nine in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 40, color repro.
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 20.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 120, repro. 121.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 68-69
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:120, color repro.
1967Strong, Roy. Holbein and Henry VIII. London and New York, 1967: 14, 17-18, repro.
1968Cuttler 1968, 415, repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 60, repro.
1969Strong, Roy. Tudor & Jacobean Portraits. National Portrait Gallery. London, 1969: 91-92, pl. 164.
1971Salvini, Roberto and Hans Werner Grohn. L'Opera pittorica completa di Holbein il Giovane. Milan, 1971: 106, no. 115, pl. 50.
1974Drossaers, S. W. A. and Th. H. Lunsingh Scheurleer. Inventarissen van de inboedels in de verblijven an de Oranjes en daarmede gelijk te stellen stukken 1567-1795. 3 vols. 1974-1976. The Hague 1:679, no. 886, 700, no. 10.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 176, repro. 177.
1975Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 160, repro. 161.
1978King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 33, pl. 11.
1979Gelder, Jan Gerrit van. "The Stadholder-King William III as Collector and `Man of Taste'." William & Mary and Their House. Exh. cat. The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1979: 35-36.
1979Hadley, Rollin van N. "What Might Have Been: Pictures Mrs. Gardner Did Not Acquire." Fenway Court (1979): 37, 42.
1979Roberts, Jane. Holbein. London, 1979: 85, repro. 84.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art Washington. New York, 1979: 56, pl. 40.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 56, pl. 40, color repro.
1981Groos, G. W. The Diary of Baron Waldstein. A Traveller in Elizabethan England. London, 1981: 46-47, repro. 14.
1983Foister, Susan. Drawings by Holbein from the Royal Library Windsor Castle. London, 1983: 2, 21, 32, 43 under no. 46, fig. 44.
1983Wolff, Martha. German Art of the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: unpaginated, repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 160, no. 176, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 204, repro.
1985Rowlands, John. Holbein. The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger. Complete Edition. Oxford, 1985: 116, 146-147, no. 70, color pl. 32, pl. 110.
1987Roberts, Jane. Drawings by Holbein from the Court of Henry VIII. Fifty Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Windsor Castle. Exh. cat. The Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, 1987: 86, under no. 25.
1988Brenninkmeyer-de Rooij, Beatrijs, et al. Paintings from England. William III and the Royal Collections. Exh. cat. Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen "Mauritshuis." The Hague, 1988: 39, 60, 117-118, no. XIII, repro. 11b.
1990Ainsworth, Maryan. "`Paternes for phiosioneamyes': Holbein's portraiture reconsidered." The Burlington Magazine 132 (1990): 182-183.
1990Campbell, Lorne. Renaissance Portraits. European Portrait-Painting in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries. New Haven and London, 1990: 104, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 70, repro.
1993Hand, John Oliver, with the assistance of Sally E. Mansfield. German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 83-91, color repro. 85.
1998Klinger, D. M. Die Malerbrüder Ambrosius und Hans d.J. Holbein. Nürnberg, 1998:217, repro.
2002Das Miedersächsische Landesmuseum Hannover. 150 Jahre Museum in Hannover, 100 Jahre Gebäude am Maschpark. Hannover, 2002: 34-35, repro.

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