# Portrait of Anna Meyer [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Black and coloured chalks, 39, x 275 mm ## Commentary Portrait of Anna Meyer c. 1526 Black and coloured chalks, 39, x 275 mm Kupferstichkabinett, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel This drawing was a preparatory study for the portrait of Anna Meyer in the Darmstadt Madonna. Here the sitter's hands, which in the painting hold a rosary, did not interest Holbein much as they are crossed out. Like the corresponding portrait drawings of Jakob Meyer and Dorothea Kannengiesser, this drawing also appears to have passed into the Meyers' possession, since in the 17th century all three apparently belonged to Remigius Faesch, a late descendant of Meyer's, with whose art collection they passed to the Kupferstichkabinett in Basel. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve]() - [Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus]() - [Charitas]() - [Charles Brandon]() - [Christ as the True Light]() - [Christina of Denmark, Ducchess of Milan \(detail\)]() - [Christina of Denmark, Ducchess of Milan]() - [Courtier of Henry VIII and his Wife]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()