Portrait of Nicolaus Kratzer

Painting by Hans Holbein the Younger

Portrait of Nicolaus Kratzer

Artist	Hans Holbein the Younger
Year	1528
Medium	tempera on oak
Dimensions	0.83 cm × 0.67 cm (0.33 in × 0.26 in)
Location	Louvre, Paris
Accession	1343; MR 751
Website	collections.louvre.fr

Portrait of Nicolaus Kratzer is a 1528 half-length portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger. It is now in the Louvre, whilst a copy after it hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. It shows the astronomer Nikolaus Kratzer, a friend of Thomas More and Holbein himself. In his hand he holds a half-finished polyhedral sundial, whilst on the shelves behind him are a semi-circular star quadrant, a shepherd's dial and other instruments.

References

v t e Hans Holbein the Younger
List of paintings List of portrait drawings
Paintings	Double Portrait of Jakob Meyer zum Hasen and Dorothea Kannengießer (1516) Portrait of Bonifacius Amerbach (1519) The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1520–1522) Solothurn Madonna (1522) Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam (1523) Lais of Corinth (c. 1524) Darmstadt Madonna (1526) Sir Thomas More and Family (1527, lost) Portrait of Sir Thomas More (1527) Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (1526–1528) Portrait of Nicolaus Kratzer (1528) Portrait of the Artists Family (1528–1529) Portrait of Georg Giese (1532) The Ambassadors (1533) Portrait of Hermann Hillebrandt de Wedigh (1533) Portrait of Thomas Cromwell (c. 1532–1534) Portrait of Charles de Solier, Sieur de Morette (1534–1535) Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper (1535–36) Portrait of Sir Richard Southwell (1536–37) Portrait of Henry VIII (1536–37, lost) Portrait Miniature of Hans Schwarzwaldt (c. 1535–1540) Portrait of Christina of Denmark (1538) Portrait of a Lady, probably a Member of the Cromwell Family (c. 1535–1540) Portrait of Jane Small (c. 1540) Portrait of a Young Merchant (1541) Self-portrait (1542–43) Portrait of Johann von Schwarzwaldt (1543)
Family	Hans Holbein the Elder (father) Ambrosius Holbein (brother)
Related	Northern Renaissance

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