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| current | 22:02, 16 January 2017 | | 2,927 × 4,226 (3.71 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <div class="description"> <p>The subject of this portrait was identified in 2004 as Anne Lovell, wife of Sir Francis Lovell (d. 1551), an esquire of the body to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="extiw" title="w:Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a>. David J. King, in his article "Who was Holbein's lady with a squirrel and a starling?", proposed that the starling in the painting encodes a pun on the Lovell family's seat at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Harling" class="extiw" title="w:East Harling">East Harling</a>, Norfolk.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> The starling and the squirrel were traditional elements in the Lovell iconography.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> Holbein painted the portrait during his first visit to England, which lasted from summer 1526 to to summer 1528. King suggests it might have been done in winter, since the sitter wears a warm fur hat. During this first stay, Holbein worked largely for the circle of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas More">Thomas More</a> and his connections: his <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Margaret_Giggs,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg" title="File:Margaret Giggs, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg">drawing of More's ward Margaret Giggs</a> shows her wearing the same type of hat. Holbein also painted portraits of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans_Holbein_d._J._057.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Hans Holbein d. J. 057.jpg">Sir Henry Guildford</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans_Holbein_d._J._035.jpg" title="File:Hans Holbein d. J. 035.jpg">Mary, Lady Guildford</a>, with similar decorative foliage in the background.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> At this stage of his career, he often adapted such designs from pattern books; in his last decade he set his portrait subjects against plain backgrounds in a more iconic style. Art historian John Rowlands judges this painting "the most charming of the portraits from Holbein's first stay in England".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup><br><b>Deutsch:</b> Anmerkung: Die Pelzhaube der "Dame mit einem Eichhörnchen" wurde hier in die Kategorie "Hermelin-Kopfbedeckungen in der Kunst" eingeordnet. Während das Winterfell des Hermelins ganz weiß ist, ist beim Eichhörnchen nur die Bauchseite weiß, in der Regel wird bei der Verarbeitung der weißen Wamme ein dunkler Rand des Rückens stehen gelassen, das ist hier nicht erkennbar(?), deshalb diese Einordnung. Es ist jedoch denkbar, dass dies keine Hermelinfellmütze sondern ein Fehmütze ist (Feh = Fell des russischen grauen Eichhörnchens), ohne Rückenfellanteil. Und das dies gerade der Grund dafür war, die Dame zusätzlich zur Eichhörnchenhaube mit einem lebenden Eichhörnchen abzubilden. </p> <dl><dd><b>References</b></dd></dl> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"> <span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">David J. King, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_/ai_n6137152">"Who was Holbein's lady with a squirrel and a starling?"</a>, <i>Apollo</i> 159, 507, May, 2004: 165–75, repeated on bnet.com, retrieved 1 March 2009.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"> <span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Derek Wilson, <i>Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man,</i> London: Pimlico, Revised Edition, 2006, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781844139187" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 9781844139187</a>, p. 140.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"> <span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Susan Foister, <i>Holbein in England</i>, London: Tate, 2006, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1854376454" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 1854376454</a>, p. 30.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"> <span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">John Rowlands, <i>Holbein: The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger</i>, Boston: David R. Godine, 1985, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0879235780" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0879235780</a>, p. 72.</span> </li> </ol> </div> |
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