# Ambrosius and Hans Holbein [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOLBEIN, Hans the Elder]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Silverpoint on white-coated paper, 103 x 155 mm ## Commentary "Prosy" and "Hanns," wrote Holbein the Elder over the heads of his two youthful sons: Hans is on the right, his elder brother Ambrosius is on the left. The hand-written notes make this silverpoint drawing one of the most personal documents of an artist's family of the early modern era. The sheet probably comes from a sketchbook in which various portraits were kept. Even though no setting is indicated, these two individual studies have the effect of two people turned towards each other. ## Related artworks - [Death of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Death of the Virgin]() - [Kaisheim Altarpiece \(outer view of the wings\)]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() - [Portrait of the Artist's Sons]() - [St Barbara]() - [The head of a crossbowman taking aim]() - [The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian]() - [Virgin and Child]() - [Virgin and Child with St Anne]() - [Wings of the Kaisheim Altarpiece \(inner view\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()